Villa88 published Jessica Michault's feature on 6 May 2025, a long interview with the Emirati artist Almaha Jaralla about colour, culture and the story of the Gulf.
Jaralla talks about making work first for an Emirati audience, about a practice rooted in Abu Dhabi, and about the hope that viewers will have a conversation with the paintings rather than learning a history only from a book. She discusses palette, including the meeting of pinks with green and blue, and a new interest in textiles and embroidery. The gallery is not named in the text that loaded. The piece is distinct from the Luxhabitat studio interview and from earlier newspaper coverage of Seham.
Michault also recounts seeing Jaralla's work praised, unexpectedly, during a talk by a visitor from a French house, and the artist's quiet surprise at being seen on that scale. Jaralla, then 28, speaks about genuineness, and about keeping her hands busy on new textile experiments while she talks.
Tabari represents Almaha Jaralla.
