Alia Zaal Emirati, b. 1989

Alia Zaal is a multidisciplinary artist from the UAE who explores memory, history and the changing urban and natural environment of her surroundings. Exploring the connection between vision and perception, her work often tracks the interplay between digital and analogue.

Her paintings are based on personal photographs - of interiors, landscapes and scenes extracted from her visual diary. The transformation of images from one medium to another is seen as an allegory of the perceptions and lenses through which memories pass.

In “My Palm Fronds Breathe (̶F̶o̶r̶ ̶Y̶o̶u̶)̶”, Alymamah Rashed explores the sensation of the spirit’s yearning to reside in a celestial home of eternity. This series of new drawings, paintings...