Shifting Winds: working with traces and residues within creative practices | Project Space
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Join us for an artist talk with Ameena Aljerman Alali and Myriam Omar Awadi from the Hayy Arts group exhibition ‘Red Wind, Coral Worlds’, moderated by curators Huda Tayob and Miriam Hillawi Abraham.

The conversation explores transnational, intergenerational and matrilineal forms of knowledge–from inherited sandalwood rituals to songs, poems and gestures passed between women across generations. Through repetition, reenactment and reinvention, the artists reflect on overlooked histories of migration and alternative ways of relating.

Ameena Aljerman Al Ali is a UAE-based visual artist and artistic researcher working across installation, video, sculpture, and text. She holds an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Stockholm) and a double major BA in Visual Art and International Studies from Zayed University (Dubai). Her work engages fragments of history, memory, and lived experience, with a focus on Afro-Emirati narratives in the Arabian Gulf. Through research-based and site-responsive approaches, she works with oral histories, material traces, and public spaces, with projects developed across the UAE, Japan, and Thailand.

Myriam Omar Awadi is a Franco-Comorian artist living and working in Réunion. She creates devices of speech and listening for inaudible voices and invisible presences. Her recent research explores the feminine singing traditions and possession rituals of the islands of the Indian Ocean and Southern Africa, conceived as spaces where forgotten narratives and presences persist. Trance is approached both as a technology and a method: to summon ghosts and repair the gaps in the architectures of memory by speculating sensitive fictions between what has been and what is yet to come, in a tremor. Her work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo, the Bamako Biennale, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town), as well as at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin). She has also participated in international events such as the Af-Flux Biennale in Montreal and the exhibition Transfeminisms in London. Following a research residency at Fondation Art Explora, she participated in the 36th São Paulo Biennale and Momenta Biennale de l’image in Montreal (2025).

Coordinates in Motion
Saturday, 23rd May | Project Space
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As part of the public programming for the exhibition Global Positioning System, join us for the artist talk “Coordinates in Motion” with exhibiting artists Eissa Attar, Hitesh Vaidya and curator and researcher Amina Diab, moderated by the curators of the exhibition, Lucas Morin and Indranjan Banerjee.

Calibrating speed, orientation and proximity across constantly shifting urban and geographic conditions, the artists reflect on forms of movement and navigation that exceed the formal logic imposed by maps, roads and digital navigation systems. The discussion explores how small gestures and everyday acts can become alternative ways of sensing, inhabiting and producing space. Moving beyond street names and fixed coordinates, the artists foreground subjective, embodied and deeply personal experiences of navigation. Navigation systems today render traditional maps redundant; they reduce navigation to an abstract exercise and remove the need to comprehend the physical space one moves through. This conversation asks what remains of space, memory and movement when direct encounters with the built environment begin to disappear.

Eissa Attar  is an artist and designer with a dual degree in MFA in Interdisciplinary Design and Masters in City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Eissa’s work draws inspiration from the documentation, photography, and imagination of space. His artistic practice encompasses various mediums, including photography, prints, sculpture, and video, all centered around the exploration and documentation of space and its absence. Currently living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Eissa previously resided in New York City, where he obtained a BFA in Architectural Design from Parsons School of Design.

Hitesh Vaidya is a visual artist based in Bhaktapur, Nepal. He completed his Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Kathmandu University, Department of Arts in 2019. Having grown up in the ancient city of Bhaktapur, the tradition, architecture and way of life there greatly influence his work. He creates painterly interventions into existing objects to navigate the dilemma between the past and the present in his work. He creates  artistic mediations into everyday communal spaces as an extension of his practice.  He was one of the participating artists of Kathmandu Triennale 2077. His works have been exhibited and collected internationally through platforms such as India Art fair and Kadist. He was also the South Asia Visiting Artist fellow at Laxmi Mittal Institute at Harvard University in 2025.

Amina Diab is an art historian and curator specialising in modern and contemporary art of the Middle East. She holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford and a PhD in History of Art from the University of York, completed in partnership with Tate Modern. She has held curatorial roles across major exhibitions, including the Islamic Arts Biennale (2023; 2025) and the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024). Most recently, she co-curated A Necessary Fiction: Maps, Art and the Models of Our World at Abbazia di San Gregorio in Venice, coinciding with the 61st Biennale di Venezia, and worked on Bedayat: Beginnings of the Saudi Art Movement at the National Museum of Saudi Arabia. She is developing a book on the transnational history of modern art in Egypt.