Sophia Al-Maria: Black Friday

July 26–October 31, 2016 -  The exhibition is inspired by the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon in which a controlled environment combined with visual and auditory stimuli is used to distract and manipulate consumers. Over the past nine years, Al-Maria has been finding ways to describe 21st-century life in the Arabian Gulf through art, writing, and filmmaking. Her first solo exhibition, Virgin with a Memory, was presented at Cornerhouse, Manchester, in 2014 and her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth, was published by Harper Perennial in 2012.