NEW YORK, NY.- Lombard-Freid Projects presents Heat Wave, a group show of works by Fikret Atay (b.1976, Turkey), Bani Abidi (b. 1971, Pakistan), Maya Schindler (b. 1977, Israel), Mounira al Solh (b. 1978, Lebanon), Eko Nugroho (b. 1977, Indonesia) and Noa Charuvi (b. 1979, Israel). With a look to the future, this will be the final exhibition in their location at 531 West 26th Street, before inaugurating their new ground-floor space at 518 West 19th Street this September. Heat Wave brings together six fresh voices from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India and Turkey. Though varied in terms of geography, language and tradition, these international artists are bound generationally and unified by an interest in representing elements of cultural and political specificity through expressions and symbols of the everyday. Using humor, critique, irony and introspection, the work of each artist proposes a distinct