Childhood to motherhood: Aidha Badr evolves at Firetti Contemporary show

Muhammad Yusuf, Gulf Today, August 27, 2025

Firetti Contemporary, in collaboration with Hunna Art Gallery, is presenting I’m Never Coming Back, a solo exhibition by artist Aidha Badr, Sept. 19 – Nov. 7. Motherhood marks a quiet yet profound transformation, arriving without ceremony, altering the texture of life and the weight of thoughts until even the smallest parts of oneself perhaps feel unfamiliar, being carefully rearranged, though not replaced.

In I’m Never Coming Back, Aidha Badr paints from this perspective, between the daughter she once was and the mother she is becoming. Her works unfold like diary entries, fragile, unfiltered, and emotionally bared. They capture her disorientation or new orientation, of silent unravelling of a previous self and the remaking of identity that moves between what has passed and what is still taking form.

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