Miami-based, Syrian-Cuban artist, Jason Seife, brings together new paintings, digital animations, limited edition prints, and NFTs in his first dedicated solo show in the region.

Seife’s mixed-media practice has always been one of hyper-realist, hand-painted intricacy combined with digital tools, and Generascope is open from March 3-April 3 at ICD Brookfield Place, DIFC. At the nexus of the contemporary and the historic, Seife’s exhibition brings together his interest in traditional textiles and embroideries of the MENA region with cutting-edge technological tools of the digital art space. Collaborating with developer Andrew Cassetti to create a JavaScript application whose algorithmic code transforms 11 hand-drawn seed images into infinite new iterations through mirroring and reflecting, Seife proves barriers are still there to be pushed in the art world.

Inspired from childhood by the intricate iconography of the carpets in his Miami home, he has travelled extensively throughout the region, meeting the weavers of various textile traditions and returning to his studio to meticulously recreate the rich colours and symbols with the contemporary and digitally-informed. Seife has launched NFT artworks, created through the Generascope, which sold out immediately. The exhibition will comprise several large-scale digital animations, four large-scale painted works on canvas as well as the limited edition prints available online.

The month-long exhibition will host a program of talks and workshops, as well as hands-on screen-printing workshops, which are all free to the public.