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Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present Embryonic Coat by Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (b. 1962, UAE) - his third solo at the gallery. Ibrahim’s intensely experimental and prolific art practice conveys his deep fascination with memory, imagery and ways of seeing and experiencing the environment, coming from both his personal experiences and the kind of innate memory found in our DNA, which he describes as a ‘primitive urge.’ Embryonic Coat explores the conception or manifestation of the known, experienced, or imagined as contained within rudimentary forms, referencing the protective sheath around a …