ArtDayME: A group exhibition titled “No Trespassing” featuring Fatspatrol, H11235, Khaled Esguerra, Rami Farook, Salma Dib, and Sara Alahbabi is currently on view at Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai.

“No Trespassing” channels the aesthetics of streets into a white cube space. The artists explore their relationship with the street, engaging with it as both subject and medium.

Rather than attempting to define the street, the show underlines its resistance to definition. More than simply a setting, it is a collection of individual experiences that alternate between chaotic and orderly, gritty and beautiful, uninhibited and curated. Signposts, building materials, pavements, lights, street art, scrapheaps, and human traces become inscriptions of a city’s movement. “No Trespassing” looks at streets as a site of deconstruction and reinvention, continually shaping and being shaped by those who pass through them.

The show explores what it means to speak of art in, on, and from the street. The artists created their works through on-site interventions, a form of mark-making that mirrors the interaction of a city with its inhabitants. By ‘tagging’ the walls and floors of a formal exhibition space, they have claimed it as their own, challenging institutional forms of expression.

On view until 30 August, Dubai, Ishara Art Foundation.