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While Ahmed's previous works were largely preoccupied with the relationship between the other and the self, her latest series marks a shift towards a more interior focus. Created during the early months of becoming a mother, each painting visualises different states of interiority as the artist attempts to navigate her new, shifting sense of self. In this sense, The Spaces Between, Ahmed’s third solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde London, serves as a kind of map, tracing the artist’s journey into motherhood and towards a new sense of wholeness.

While the artist continues to conjure the same …