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Some works begin long before the paper is formed.Installed as part of Who I Become at Maraya Art Centre, this material a...
18/05/2026

Some works begin long before the paper is formed.

Installed as part of Who I Become at Maraya Art Centre, this material arrangement offers a closer look into the process behind Salmah Almansoori’s handmade papers and works. Spices, grasses, palm fibers, natural pigments, and collected organic elements become part of a quiet archive — transformed through labor, memory, and time.

The final slide reveals the paper-making machine itself: a tool not only of production, but of preservation. Through these materials and processes, Almansoori reflects on landscape, transformation, and the intimate relationship between material and place.

Who I Become is now on view at Maraya Art Centre through 30 July 2026.

We are pleased to present Of the Palm by Salmah Almansoori at the Ministry of Culture Majlis during Make it in the Emira...
11/05/2026

We are pleased to present Of the Palm by Salmah Almansoori at the Ministry of Culture Majlis during Make it in the Emirates. Using laser engraving on handmade palm paper, the series explores memory, material transformation, and the relationship between landscape, labour, and identity through layered surfaces and archival gestures.

Special thanks to Walter Williams for his support and collaboration in making this presentation possible.

On view at Maraya Art Centre as part of “Who I Become” curated by Salmah Almansoori“I Was a Forgotten Moment”, 2024–202...
07/05/2026

On view at Maraya Art Centre as part of “Who I Become” curated by

Salmah Almansoori
“I Was a Forgotten Moment”, 2024–2026
Acrylic on canvas
Variable dimensions

In this series, Salmah Almansoori brings overlooked objects back into focus, transforming fragments of everyday life into layered visual narratives. Through walking, observing, and collecting, she captures traces of spaces once inhabited, where small elements quietly hold memory.

Through painting, these forgotten moments are reawakened. Color becomes a tool for re-seeing, preserving what might otherwise disappear into the background.

Artwork highlight | “Of the Palm”, 2025-2026, On view at Maraya Art Centre as part of “Who I Become”, curated by Cima Az...
05/05/2026

Artwork highlight | “Of the Palm”, 2025-2026, On view at Maraya Art Centre as part of “Who I Become”, curated by Cima Azzam

In this series, Salmah Almansoori explores the palm as a shifting material, unfolding through cycles, fragments, and transformation. Working with handmade palm paper and laser engraving, the works bring together digital precision and organic irregularity, where fibers carry memory and marks become traces of what once was.

Each piece reflects a continuous cycle of becoming, where material holds history beyond its original form.

Artwork highlight | “Tracing What Remains, 2025” On view at Maraya Art Centre as part of solo exhibition “Who I Become...
04/05/2026

Artwork highlight | “Tracing What Remains, 2025” On view at Maraya Art Centre as part of solo exhibition “Who I Become”

“Tracing What Remains, 2025”
Watercolor on handmade palm paper
120 × 230 cm

In this series, Salmah Almansoori explores the layered cultural and ecological memory of Ghayathi. Handmade from locally sourced alfalfa and pond fibers, the paper becomes both material and method, an act of documenting a landscape once shaped by water systems. These fibers, gathered and transformed, function as an archive of place, holding within them traces of a city that has largely remained undocumented.

Through mark-making, Salmah works in close dialogue with the material, allowing the fibers to guide rhythm, texture, and form. Rather than imposing an image, the surface determines the outcome, where layers are built, disrupted, and reformed over time.

What emerges is not a literal depiction, but a sensory translation of place. Each work holds within it histories of survival, transformation, and ecological presence, becoming a living document rooted in tradition, shaped by modernity, and resisting cultural erasure through the act of making.

Artwork highlight | “Who I Became” On view at Maraya Art Centre as part of solo exhibition “Who I Become” “Who I Becam...
03/05/2026

Artwork highlight | “Who I Became” On view at Maraya Art Centre as part of solo exhibition “Who I Become”

“Who I Became”, 2023
Photo transfer on found tiles and objects
Variable dimensions

In this series, Salmah Al Mansoori transforms memory into material. Drawing from fragments of her childhood home, each found object is layered through photo transfer and painting, carrying traces of lived experience. Rather than presenting memory as fixed, the works embrace its partial nature, how we remember in pieces, moments, and impressions rather than complete narratives.

Through this process, identity emerges as something fluid and cumulative, shaped by places once inhabited and the emotions they continue to hold. Intimate and deeply personal, the works invite the viewer to look closer, to navigate their own relationship to memory, place, and becoming.

We are proud to present Who I Become at Maraya Art Centre, curated by , marking a significant moment in the practice of...
02/05/2026

We are proud to present Who I Become at Maraya Art Centre, curated by , marking a significant moment in the practice of

From the outset, her work has carried a striking clarity, defined by focus, direction, and a deep commitment to material and process. Moving fluidly across drawing, papermaking, assemblage, and installation, her practice unfolds as an ongoing investigation into memory, place, and time.

Working with handmade papers derived from palm and alfalfa fibers, alongside spices and found materials, Salmah constructs works that act as carriers of both personal and collective histories. These elements do not simply support the work, they shape its rhythm, texture, and meaning.

Across the exhibition, memory is not fixed but allowed to remain fluid, layered, and in constant transformation. From early explorations of personal archives to more spatial and sculptural works where absence itself becomes material, her practice continues to expand while remaining deeply rooted in place.

Who I Become brings these threads together into an open dialogue, reflecting a practice that embraces becoming as a continuous condition. There is a quiet insistence in her work, a commitment to preserving what might otherwise be overlooked, and to reactivating it through acts of making.

We are proud to have supported Salmah’s journey and to witness this important chapter in her evolving practice.

Firetti Contemporary

Open now: Déjà Vu at Concrete, Alserkal Avenue.Firetti Contemporary is pleased to participate in “Déjà Vu”, a collective...
30/04/2026

Open now: Déjà Vu at Concrete, Alserkal Avenue.

Firetti Contemporary is pleased to participate in “Déjà Vu”, a collective exhibition bringing together 20 of the UAE’s leading contemporary art galleries, conceptualised by .

📍 Open daily, 10:00am to 10:00pm at Concrete,
📆 On view until 8 May

The exhibition explores cycles of repetition, fragmented histories, memory distortions, and slippages in language and meaning.

We are pleased to present works by .tallaa_ and

Tallaa’s portraits move beyond likeness, inhabiting a space of tension where faces appear and dissolve through layered gestures of erasure and reconstruction. Shaped by psychological and material instability, his works hold a quiet balance between fragility and endurance.

Al Remeithi’s practice reimagines the infrastructures of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, transforming road systems into abstract compositions through layering, digital manipulation, and thread.

Curated by Kevin Jones ( ), Director of Strategy at Alserkal, Nada Raza ( ), Director of Alserkal Arts Foundation, and Zaina Zaarour ( ), Curator and Manager of Programmes at Alserkal Avenue, in consultation with participating galleries.

Firetti Contemporary is pleased to take part in Déjà Vu, a multi-gallery exhibition conceptualised by Alserkal, opening ...
23/04/2026

Firetti Contemporary is pleased to take part in Déjà Vu, a multi-gallery exhibition conceptualised by Alserkal, opening this Saturday at Concrete, Alserkal Avenue.

The show brings together over 50 artists exploring repetition, dissonance, and the uncanny sensation of having seen something before.

We present portraits by Ahmad Tallaa and the Road Series by Mai Al Remeithi. Tallaa’s figures are built through layers of scraping, erasure, and reworking. His faces don’t settle. They shift. Al Remeithi traces road fragments from Abu Dhabi and Dubai through thread work and layering, mapping the invisible routes shaped by memory and time.

25 April to 8 May 2026
Concrete, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Ahmad Tallaa grew up in Damascus under the shadow of war. He makes his own paper, crafts his own tools, plays the Ney an...
14/04/2026

Ahmad Tallaa grew up in Damascus under the shadow of war. He makes his own paper, crafts his own tools, plays the Ney and the Oud. Everything he touches becomes a way of processing what he has lived through. Swipe to see how that translates onto the canvas.

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