ArtDayME: Tabari Artspace in Dubai is currently presenting “Fertile Dreams,” a group exhibition that unfolds between soil and psyche, where earthly terrain fuels the unconscious and artistic creation draws from instinct, ancestry, and ritual.

The show brings together works by Maitha Abdalla, Alymamah Rashed, Chafa Ghaddar, Saj Issa, Lulwah Al Homoud, Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, Nada Baraka, Rema Ghuloum, and Randa Maddah, with the curation moving fluidly across mediums and scales. Inside the gallery, the participating women artists harness elemental materials—charcoal, pigment, clay, fresco—each carrying the touch of the hand and the trace of the body.

“Fertile Dreams” explores cycles of growth and erosion, presence and absence, fuel and flame. In this dream-like terrain, bodies emerge as shifting topographies rather than fixed forms. Some works strip away distraction to reach an essential core, while others conjure ancient energies rooted in land, myth, and spiritual practice.

The exhibition reflects a dissolution of boundaries between matter and metaphor. What begins in the earth stirs in imagination; what pulses beneath the surface takes shape through form, pigment, texture, and sound. Across drawing, painting, ceramics, textiles, and installation, the artists turn to automatism as a shared method—an access point to symbolic and unconscious worlds. Through rhythmic repetition, the works evoke trance, invocation, and imaginative flight.

“Fertile Dreams” is on view at Tabari Artspace, DIFC, until 2 January.