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This year, our exhibition brings together the experiences of three Arab artists at Abu Dhabi Art 2022. Afifa Aleiby (Iraq), Nabil Anani (Palestine) and Dia Mrad (Lebanon) present artworks that discuss a wide range of subjects, focusing on their milieu. In this context they discuss landscape, architecture, and womanhood and how these subjects are shaped in their physical and social setting.

Iraqi artist Afifa Aleiby’s body of work discusses womanhood. Women are dominantly present in her works, and they take the shape of monuments; white, cold and motionless in most of the series or the shape …