V-Residency

V-Residency gives artists a period of working time in Dubai within Volery’s wider programme of exhibitions and collaborations. Established in 2025, the residency shifts the gallery’s involvement upstream, creating a setting for experimentation and the development of a body of work before its public presentation.

Japanese-Brazilian artist Mariana Oushiro was the inaugural resident in February and March 2025. Her time in Dubai culminated in The Higher We Soar, a solo exhibition of paintings concerned with movement, perception and spatial depth. Bold colour, decisive lines and geometric structures brought the different elements of her abstract language into dialogue.

The residency and exhibition were conceived as connected parts of the artist’s engagement with the gallery. That continuity gives audiences a way to follow the passage from studio process to finished work, while allowing Volery to support the conditions in which a new presentation takes shape.