DUBAI — Dubai-born artist Fathima Mohiuddin, widely known by her street art alias Fatspatrol, is among six artists featured in “No Trespassing”, a summer exhibition at the Ishara Art Foundation running until Aug. 30, 2025.
The show explores boundaries — physical, cultural, and institutional — by reimagining the raw aesthetics of street art within the refined setting of a gallery space.
“I’m not typically a gallery exhibiting artist,” Mohiuddin told “I’ve spent much of my career in street art because the urban art space has always felt like a more natural place for me.”
Her featured work, “The World Out There,” reflects on the tension between personal identity and external expectations. “Boundaries and restrictions have been a big part of not just my work but my life,” she explained. “My work is about mark-making … to say, ‘I was here, I was unique in a world that doesn’t want me to be, and I mattered.’”
Initially intending to showcase small-scale works on reclaimed road signs and license plates, Mohiuddin found they appeared diminished in the large white cube gallery. With encouragement from curator Priyanka Mehra, she shifted toward a more experimental approach.
“I told Priyanka I wanted to bring in some texture and I’m going to paint with brooms,” she said. The result is a layered, large-scale installation that channels the grit and vibrancy of the streets.
“Working without restriction was amazing. And brooms — I used brooms in my mark-making for the first time,” Mohiuddin added.
By embracing improvisation, she hopes to spark “a raw humanness” in viewers. “Perhaps let’s say I hope it provokes a human response,” she noted.
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