Time is a quiet but persistent presence, shaping how we see, feel, and remember. It moves through us and around us, often unnoticed, yet constantly marking transformation in people, materials, and places. Rather than something measured by clocks or calendars, time unfolds through lived experience, through cycles of growth and decay, repetition and renewal. It lingers in textures, memories, and gestures, reminding us that every surface carries the trace of what has passed and the promise of what remains.

Rusting Echoes brings together four artists Yoshi (Aisha Al Ali), Ammar Al Banna, Ahmed Al Kuwaiti, and Shaikha Al Shamsi, whose practices converge around a shared contemplation of time, not as something fixed but as something embodied and felt. The exhibition approaches time as both emotional and material presence, one that lingers in memory, process, and form. It reflects on how time manifests quietly through change, decay, and resonance, revealing both impermanence and continuity in the marks it leaves.

The title crystallizes this dual focus. Rust evokes the slow transformation of materials, the visible trace of endurance and erosion, a metaphor for how experience shapes surfaces, bodies, and memory. Echoes signifies the reverberations of those traces, the lingering after-sounds of actions, gestures, and emotions. Together, rust and echoes frame the exhibition as a meditation on accumulation, how experiences, labor, and care leave subtle, enduring marks that persist beyond immediate perception.

Across their practices, the artists engage in slow, process-driven methods that register time through touch, material, and repetition. Their works inhabit a space between making and becoming, where the passage of time is cyclical and reflective. Rusting Echoes invites viewers to attune to these quiet transformations, sensing time as texture, movement, and resonance in what fades, persists, and returns. 

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15, 5:30 PM