Gypsum is pleased to present a collaboration with Sargent’s Daughters in their lower-level space. The limited-run exhibition, titled The Bestiary, marks the gallery’s first exhibition in New York. This invitation grew out of conversations between the gallerists at Art Basel Qatar, where they discussed a shared desire to find new modes of working together across regions. As two women-led, critically rigorous programs, this exhibition allows both galleries to reflect on their shared relationships and values across different cultural contexts.

The Bestiary brings together three Egyptian artists from Gypsum’s roster whose works reach into medieval craft histories—appliqué, Islamic illuminated manuscripts, and heraldic symbolism—to reflect on contemporary personal, historical, and political narratives. Rooted in the materiality of these traditions, the work of Dina Danish, Huda Lutfi, and Mohamed Monaiseer traces the ways systems of power are built, broken, and endured.