Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
Maitha Abdalla, Home as you remember, 2026. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas; 57.5 x 71.5 x 5 cm 22 5/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 in.
Maitha Abdalla, Home as you remember, 2026. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas; 57.5 x 71.5 x 5 cm 22 5/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 in.
Maitha Abdalla Emirati , b. 1989
Home as you remember, 2026
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
57.5 x 71.5 x 5 cm
22 5/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 in
22 5/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 in
Exhibitions
2026, Afterglow, Tabari, No.09 Frieze Cork Street, London, UKLiterature
In Home as you remember, Abdalla collapses domestic architecture and landscape into a single psychological space. Pink tiles enclose the scene, while trees appear to have taken root inside the room. A small landscape hangs on the wall like an image within an image, complicating the distinction between the place inhabited and the place remembered. The domestic interior becomes porous, reconstructed through fragments rather than fixed architecture. Home, Abdalla suggests, may persist most powerfully as an afterimage: altered by time, repetition and the instability of recollection.