Wafa Al Falahi is an Emirati multidisciplinary artist whose practice traverses painting, sculpture, and design to give form to the subconscious. Through processes reminiscent of Rorschach tests, her papier mâché, pastel, and pigment compositions blur distinctions between human and animal, self and other.
Childlike yet uncanny, her creatures and landscapes conjure the material presence of memory and dream, offering raw but sensorially vibrant reflections on interiority and imagination. Deeply informed by her background in spatial and object design, Al Falahi draws on clay, bioplastics, furniture-making, and other material explorations to expand her artistic vocabulary, where the sensibilities of space-making and craft infuse her work with both tactile intimacy and sculptural presence.
Al Falahi holds a BA in Interior Design from the American University of Sharjah (2022) and was an artist-in-residence at the Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi. She has participated in programs such as the Athath Fellowship (2022), Tanween by Tashkeel (2023), and the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship (2024–25). Her work has been exhibited at Dubai Design Week, Sikka, and Alserkal Avenue, and featured in Architectural Digest, Mojeh, Identity AE, and Villa 88.