On view: 21 July – 31 August 2025

Opening reception: Monday 21 July, 18.00h

MATDOT Art Center is excited to present the debut Thailand exhibition of esteemed Pakistani artists Sadaf Naeem and R.M. Naeem at the Bangkok gallery space. The joint exhibition announces the South Asian couple’s first artistic collaboration in over two decades. 'In Another Space' is a visual love letter to their personal and creative relationship, for the collection of paintings may be seen as a conversation unfolding between two individuals whose interaction with the environment is simultaneously separate and yet shares similar themes and motifs that signify their union. This group of artworks sees beyond the boundaries of the artists’ home country that may be unsettled by their established ideas, and they wholeheartedly welcome the disruption. As Pakistani artists, Sadaf and R.M. Naeem are aware of the cultural responsibilities that ground them, and yet as “international citizens of the world” as R.M. Naeem calls themselves, this exhibition is a welcome discourse on identity overcoming heritage, and self-autonomy having the last word in the conversation. To see 'In Another Space' is akin to experiencing a rainstorm nurturing the landscape, for Sadaf Naeem’s works are the foliage and fauna being immersed by the showers, and R.M. Naeem’s paintings is the sky opening up, sunlight shining through and together a new day is dawning. 'In Another Space' is a cerebral stroll through memory and time, and as seen through a series of dreamscape narratives, the viewer is asked to dispel with what they believe and to open their hearts and minds to new ways of thinking.