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Aichi Triennale opens its sixth edition curated by Hoor Al Qasimi

• Sunday, September 14, 2025 3:30 PM

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AICHI, Japan, 14th September, 2025 (WAM) – The Aichi Triennale, one of Japan’s leading
international art events, opened its sixth edition to the public on 13 September 2025. Curated by
Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation—the first non-Japanese Artistic
Director in the triennale’s history—the exhibition draws its title, A Time Between Ashes and Roses,
from a verse by the Syrian poet Adonis, a leading voice in the contemporary Arab world.
The exhibition proposes a vision of the future that is framed through geological time, rather than
through the current national or territorial perspectives, which tend to dictate our understanding of
the divide between humanity and its environment.

The triennale brings together 60 artists and collectives from 22 countries and territories whose
practices span cultural memory, material experimentation, and popular imagination. Robert
Andrew explores suppressed family histories through installations; Priyageetha Dia interweaves
Southeast Asian labor histories with speculative tropics and machine logics; Simone Leigh
presents her acclaimed ceramic and bronze sculptures in Japan for the first time; Faustin Linyekula
debuts a performance rooted in dance, storytelling, and the politics of cultural survival; and Afra Al

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