The artwork "Wish that the Birds Could Carry You" by Ahed Al Kathiri uses a minimal composition with deep maroon-hued text scattered across a white background, creating a sense of weightlessness and fluidity. The text, with flowing script and abstract symbols, suggests themes of travel, communication, and longing. The style is conceptual and introspective, blending visual art with poetic elements. Al Kathiri captures her diasporic experience, reflecting on the concept of belonging and the desire for connection with one's roots through evocative language and spatial arrangement. ...
Ahed Al Kathiri is an emerging artist based in Dubai, UAE. Born and living away from her motherland, Yemen, she uses her personal experience to explore notions of belonging, place, and existence.
Ahed’s introspective and intimate work engages with written work, sound, textiles, and recently performance.
Veronika Berezina founded NIKA Project Space in the UAE in 2023, a gallery that fosters the artistic inquiry of emerging and established artists and curators internationally, with a focus on practitioners from the Global South.
NIKA Project Space serves as a platform for artistic discourse and experimentation and champions the work of female artists and curators. In addition to exhibitions which focus on conceptualization, abstraction, and philosophical inquiry, NIKA Project Space offers a critically engaged programme that emphasizes contemporaneity and dialogue through talks, performances, and educational initiatives. The gallery also hosts a research programme, inviting artists to create impactful new works that implement research-based and experimental creative processes, ultimately facilitating the exploration and portrayal of nuanced societal experiences and historical narratives.
In 2024, NIKA Project Space inaugurated a European location in the Komunuma art district in Romainville,on the outskirts of Paris. In Dubai, the gallery is located in Al Khayat Avenue, Al Quoz. ...
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