Jorge Tacla, a third-generation Chilean artist of Palestinian and Syrian descent who has been working between Santiago and New York since 1981, brings four decades of paintings, drawings and installations to Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF). The exhibition, on view in SAF spaces at Galleries 1, 2 and 3 in Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah City (Feb. 8 – Jun. 7), is titled after a line from poet, essayist and playwright T.S. Eliot’s poem The Dry Salvages (part of Four Quartets).
An AI Overview notes that the line is a paradox; it implies that “time erodes individual lives and memories (“destroyer”) while simultaneously cementing history, endurance, and collective experience (“preserver”). It suggests that decay and preservation are inseparable parts of the same temporal process.”
