Gypsum Gallery

OPENING TODAY | Taha Belal at Basel Social Club 🖇️🗓️

For Basel Social Club, Belal’s installation “Unfinished Business (Bonjour je suis en vacances en Espagne)” consists of carbon transfers onto receipts, magazine pages, and recycled paper. The transferred images are based on cropped gestures and closeups of hands sourced from newspapers, advertisements, and circulating media imagery: men in suits shaking hands, pointing at microphones, clapping.

Isolated through the transfer process, these gestures become fragmented signs of presentation, persuasion, and the choreography of power, thereby reflecting how images, authority, and communication circulate between business, media, and everyday life.

This year’s edition occupies a vacant office building near Basel SBB. Positioning the office as both subject and scenography, engages with evolving conditions of work, time, and production.

Basel Social Club 2026: Office, on view June 14–20 in Basel

Images by Roman Häbler and Lars-Ole Bastar .info

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Looking back at the spectacular opening of “Z for Zarafa” last night. 🌟🦒🌟

Thank you to all who joined us to celebrate Lara Baladi’s show, which emerged from a laborious multi-year endeavor and through a wide network of collaborations.

We were thrilled to launch “The Anatomist,” a publication co-produced by Gypsum, co-edited by Farida Youssef and the artist, and launched on the occasion of the exhibition, now available for purchase at the gallery (more info coming soon).

A very special thanks to Hourig Mekhtigian (.o.u.r.i.g) for providing such thoughtful food and drink on the occasion of the opening and Florabel () for the beautiful flower arrangement in the belly of our very own Zarafa sculpture. 💐

And of course, a huge congratulations to Lara Baladi for an incredible show.

Z for Zarafa will be on view until 23 September. The gallery is open daily from 12-8pm (closed Thursday and Friday.

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lara ❤️‍🔥

Images by Marc Onsi

3 days until the opening of Z FOR ZARAFA, Lara Baladi’s first solo show at the gallery 🦒

The show traces intertwined histories of migration, diplomatic exchange, and revolutions, emerging from “Anatomy of Revolution,” her monumental web-based ABC of global revolts.

In her sprawling alphabet, the letter Z stands for many words, including “Zarafa,” the giraffe gifted by Mohamed Ali to King Charles X of France in 1827.

For Baladi, however, Zarafa’s afterlife persists as both a diplomatic relic and a metaphor for displacement and forced migration.

Opening reception: Tuesday, 2 June, 7-9pm
2 June - 23 September 2026

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lara 🌟

Last day to catch “The Bestiary”, our group show at Sargent’s Daughters lower-level space 🌟

Featuring work by three Egyptian artists from the gallery’s roster–Dina Danish, Huda Lutfi, and Mohamed Monaiseer–the show mobilizes medieval Egyptian material histories, techniques, and motifs to reflect on contemporary personal, historical, and political narratives.

📍 Sargent’s Daughters (lower-level space)
4 Cortlandt Alley, New York
On view until May 30 - open until 6pm

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