“Growing up, I saw my grandmother and mother wearing the kanga and I have always been fascinated by the colours and patterns. I was curious about what the proverbial inscription meant and why text was printed on it.”
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Jana Malaikah's "Evolution" is a video installation kaleidoscope that depicts the transition of the Arabic congratulatory phrase العقبى لك through four stages.
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"This piece is about dealing with change through pain. It’s about trying to find a way to move beneath the surface, to connect with myself through this, no matter how painful it may be."
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"Seeing the world through a symbolic, metaphysical lens, the 2 of pentacles instantly comes to mind whenever I hear the word uncertainty."
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In her photography series “VANITY”, Mariam explores external beauty, tradition, and the expectations/value placed upon the externalities of Emirati women.
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“This series represents the state of the heart as it goes through the human’s everyday flux; while we long for stability in an unstable existence, we try our best to protect our hearts from those changes, not knowing that these same changes are what keep our hearts alive.”
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AUDE NASR: These illustrations are about the feeling of loneliness that can affect some of us children of immigrants as times. As our identities are divided, and our families’ past in the homeland can be inhabited by the ghosts of war or disillusions, there is still, in some of us, a sort of longing for our homelands.
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"Old School is part of a conversation of change and development, of growing up in Dubai in the 80s and 90s and seeing these changes first hand”
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ALYA OSMAN: Amina, an artist, gently paints whilst contemplating notions of life and change.
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Illustrated by Ghada Ghannam.
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Illustrated by Ghada Ghannam.
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Photographed by Dhabya AlFalasi.
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A summer travel zine/a series of thoughts/probably an on-record existential crisis by Fatima Al Jarman.
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“Space for Growth is a digital artwork that depicts how sometimes we need space and distance from all the people around us, including the ones that we love and who love us.” — Layan Dajani
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Artwork created by Sabila Siddiqui.
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Zoya Zalatimo’s 'No Signal' is a satirical visual representation of what she thinks some people imagine when she says she's from Dubai or Palestine during her undergraduate career in the United States.
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