The importance of staying quiet - 6. Open Forms, 2026, by Ayessha Quraishi
The importance of staying quiet - 6. Open Forms, 2026, by Ayessha Quraishi

Faheem Abbas, Untitled, 2025, Inkjet print on paper, 21 × 14.8cm. Edition of 3. Photo Courtesy: Grey Noise, Dubai

The importance of staying quiet - 6. Open Forms

Grey Noise, Dubai
September 23, 2026 – December 31, 2026

Group Exhibition


Open Forms alludes to a way of looking that we have been negotiating since our art school years. We are drawn to artists with a certain peculiarity, whose work seems to emerge from a self-imposed stillness, at some distance from the noise around them. It is a desire to address how they approach conceptual developments that move away from narrative, focusing instead on making and the material through which the abstract is constructed.

- Saira Ansari / Umer Butt


Zubeida Agha

Shahid Sajjad

Mussarat Mirza

Lala Rukh

Ayessha Quraishi

Bani Abidi

Seher Shah

Sara Salman

Ali Kazim

Fahd Burki

Zara Mahmood

Igra Tanveer

Fatima Haider

Faheem Abbas

Fazal Rizvi

Inaam Zafar

Faraz Aamer Khan