About
Mirath keeps the record of a new generation of Gulf artists. Emirati in origin and ambition, it shows the wider Gulf scene to anyone willing to look closely.
It is not a gallery, not a magazine, and not an archive. An archive stores what is finished; Mirath keeps a living record of work still being made. Each week, one work enters the record. Each month, three essays give the scene its words. Exhibitions are kept with their place and their dates. The whole of it can be browsed as a record, by the work itself.
The posture is plain. A generation of Gulf artists is already contending with the world. Mirath does not argue the point or ask for recognition; it keeps the proof, precisely, and lets the work speak.
The frame stays quiet so the work can be seen. Paintings are shown untreated and uncropped, full colour, with room around them, named with the exactness of a museum label and nothing more.