Holding a multitude of connotations, the word “collections” in the art world is often surrounded by conversations of relevance, inclusion, cultural narrative, and monetary value. Within the communal mind of all societies, the building of a collection seems spartanly reserved for the wealthy and the privileged. However, for centuries, artists and other creative individuals have gathered everything—be they specific aspects of reality, fiction, or other diverse subject matter to create bodies or containers for the accumulation of their own ideas, insights, and mechanisms that, at some point in time, become identified as art objects in the world.​ These questions take on a much more specified valence when considering Asia as a vast continent of regions and countries that have been fragmented through the categorization and recategorizations of academicians in fixed paradigms. Premiering for the first time in Dubai at the crossroads of a geographical location, which until recent decades was not generally, referred to as Asia, FIELD MEETING Take 6 addresses the lack of ongoing, robust, and artistic connectivity between Western and Eastern regions of Asia.

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See full curatorial statement here.