Forbidden Dancing Ideas

Picasso Gallery, Dubai, October 2024

Bahar Assar’s solo exhibition, Forbidden Dancing Ideas, held in October 2024 at Dubai’s Picasso Gallery, invites audiences into a captivating world where movement and restriction intertwine. Known for her expressive sculptures, Assar explores the nuances of freedom, constraint, and the silent language of the body.

A highlight of the exhibition is a bronze sculpture adorned with turquoise, portraying a figure in a poised dance, bound within a delicate hoop. The figure’s posture embodies both grace and tension, symbolizing the universal struggle between liberation and limitation. The elegant interplay of bronze and turquoise elements brings life to the piece, inviting viewers to feel the weight of restraint alongside the yearning for freedom.

Forbidden Dancing Ideas is a profound reflection on suppressed thoughts, desires, and the boundaries society imposes. Each work in the collection reflects Assar’s skillful balance of strength and vulnerability, transforming the gallery into a space where imagination and expression dance on the edge of the forbidden.