Najat Makki’s ‘Whispering Definitions’ exhibition opens at Iyad Qanazea Gallery
Najat Makki is one of the pioneering figures of contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates.
Najat Makki is one of the pioneering figures of contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates.
Through a dialogue between identity, memory, and movement, the exhibition explores how cultural knowledge, stories, and traditions remain connected to their origins even as they travel across time and geography.
The United Arab Emirates is witnessing one of its most ambitious cultural seasons in recent years, with museums, foundations, and galleries across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah presenting major international exhibitions that connect global modernism with regional narratives, memory, migration, identity, and language.
This article analyzes a single artwork by renowned Emirati artist Alia Hussain Lootah:Like a quiet embrace suspended in mid-air, the knitted metal sculpture seems almost alive. Its looping wires cast soft, shifting shadows across the wall, as if whispering emotions that cannot easily be put into words. In this delicate yet deeply moving work, Emirati artist Alia Hussain Lootah transforms a cold industrial material into an intimate reflection on motherhood, human connection, and the invisible…
This article analyzes a single artwork by renowned Emirati artist Najat Makki : Words fade as soon as they are spoken, but images linger—this belief lies at the heart of Najat Makki’s artistic practice. One of the most influential figures in the United Arab Emirates’ art history, Makki belongs to a pioneering generation of Emirati artists who laid the foundations for the country’s contemporary visual culture. Her work, rooted in memory, material, and abstraction, continues to resonate locally…
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On the shores of Khorfakkan, where mountains meet the sea, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim has spent a lifetime listening to the land. In the wind-scoured cliffs and shifting tides, he finds the shapes, colors, and rhythms that have become the heartbeat of his art—whether painted on canvas or formed into sculptures that seem as if they were unearthed from another time.
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