MARWAN BASSIOUNI – NEW WESTERN VIEWS

Each image centres on a window, an aperture onto the outside world, rarely found in purpose-built mosques. Through these portals, we glimpse familiar Western landscapes: traffic junctions, supermarkets, apartment blocks, sports fields. But these views are not neutral. They are framed by interiors shaped by Islamic visual culture: patterned tiles, rugs, wooden minbars, and other architectural elements drawn from the diverse communities building mosques across the West. Originating from places such as Bosnia, Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Morocco, and Indonesia, these communities transform everyday suburban spaces into makeshift prayer rooms. The result is a distinctly Western scene viewed through a distinctly Islamic frame.

The works on view are large in scale, and composed with a deliberate attention to balance and spatial clarity. While photographic in medium, they depart from traditional documentary approaches. Each image is constructed with precise control over lighting, capturing both interior and exterior spaces within a single frame. This careful calibration preserves architectural and atmospheric detail, resulting in compositions that are immersive rather than descriptive.

Opposite – New Dutch Views #10, The Netherlands, 2018

Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2025

Lawrie Shabibi
Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Al-Quoz 1
Dubai
UAE

www.lawrieshabibi.com

DON MCCULLIN – A DESECRATED SERENITY

‘A Desecrated Serenity’ chronicles McCullin’s remarkable seven-decade career, including his seventeen-year tenure as special contract photographer for The Sunday Times, when his assignments took him to the frontlines of war across Greece, Vietnam, Biafra, Bangladesh, Northern Ireland and Beirut. It was during this time that he captured searing images such as ‘A shell-shocked US Marine, Hué’ (1968). This widely circulated photograph shows an American soldier gripped by quiet distress during the brutal battle to retake Hue City—one of the Vietnam War’s fiercest conflicts—his intense expression capturing the war’s deep personal toll. ‘A Desecrated Serenity’ presents these harrowing images alongside personal objects that speak to the extraordinary risks McCullin faced in the field, most notably his Nikon F camera that absorbed a bullet during combat. McCullin’s deep, hard-won sense of empathy, shaped by his youth living through poverty and violence in East London, is evident in these images and objects.

Opposite – Catholic youths escaping from CS gas, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1971

Exhibition runs through to November 8th, 2025

Hauser & Wirth
32 E 69th St
New York
NY 10021

www.hauserwirth.com

LORENZO POLI – THE GEOGLYPHS OF OUR TIME

Geoglyphs are ancestral symbolic forms, etched into the ground with dry-stone lines, cleared furrows, and tamped soil. Created by Indigenous communities as ritual acts, they embody communal cosmologies across the landscape, a shared vision of the Cosmos. Often aligned with constellations or natural features and most legible from above, they weave culture, Land, and the heavens.”

This photographic investigation is a personal reflection on human values and how they are carved into the Earth’s body. I have traversed South America’s mining territories for fifteen months in search of meaning. As an architect expanding my practice into the realm of the visual arts, I have sought to engage with the spiritual dimensions of our epoch, immersing myself in monumental voids that descend into the Earth’s depths. From the air and from the ground, what emerged transcended the commodification of minerals for the energy transition: these voids exist as testaments to humanity’s aspirations..

Opposite – The Mountain of Silver. The skeleton of minted Globalisation, Cerro Rico – Bolivia 1545

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2025

Pictura Gallery
202 S Rogers St
Bloomington
IN 47404

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