Image: Gazelli Art House, London
The exhibition is curated by Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti and Auronda Scalera and brings together six artists. Their practices explore how histories, materials and cultural knowledge survive transformation.
The exhibition brings this proposition into dialogue with practices rooted across Central Asia, the Gulf and their diasporas. Rather than presenting a single geography or narrative, the works reveal unexpected connections between inherited techniques, ecological histories, technological systems and the body.
What is carried forward is never simply preserved: it is translated, reworked and made newly present.
The title draws on French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s writing on the fold. The exhibition considers the past and present not as separate or opposing states, but as continually shaping one another. For Deleuze, the fold describes an ongoing process through which forms persist by changing as they move between different times, contexts and conditions. That process is expressed through folding, unfolding and refolding.
The exhibition spans installation, sculpture, textile, moving image, photography, painting and ceramics. One listed work is Manal AlDowayan’s ‘The Emerging AP’, from 2024.
