Aisha Alabbar Gallery invites everyone to explore Architectures of the In-Between, a group exhibition that will run through 23 August 2025. Featuring works by Nevine Hamza, Atefeh Majidi Nezhad, and Layla Juma, the show brings together three distinct practices that use architecture as a conceptual and emotional framework. Here, structures are not merely buildings: they are metaphors, memories, thresholds, and shifting identities.
Each artist approaches the notion of space as a physical and psychological terrain. Their works engage with ideas of transition, balance, and presence. They reveal architecture as something felt rather than simply inhabited. The exhibition becomes an immersive field of suspended forms, fragile geometries, and poetic interventions that redefine the viewer’s relationship with the built world.
Nevine Hamza, an Egyptian artist and architect, blends photography, digital collage, and painting to create meditative, abstract compositions that often reference the sky, horizons, and architectural planes. Her artworks evoke a sense of detachment and longing. They invite contemplation of invisible boundaries: those between ground and air, memory and space, interior and exterior. Dividing her time between Cairo and Dubai, Hamza examines how environments shape our emotional and spiritual landscapes.
Iranian artist Atefeh Majidi Nezhad, who resides in the UAE, explores the dynamic relationship between architecture, memory, and perception. She is especially interested in how monuments embed layered histories and emotional resonance. Among her mixed media art pieces featured in Architectures of the In-Between are lace installations from her Zero‑G series (2019-2020). These tactile, spatial works hover between visibility and erasure. They evoke memories and atmospheres embedded in architecture, bridging materiality and lived experience.
Prominent Emirati artist Layla Juma, known for her minimalist approach, investigates form, repetition, and spatial logic through drawing and sculpture. Her work is rooted in geometry, where subtle variations and systematic arrangements reveal hidden rhythms and internal orders. Drawing on Islamic architectural principles, Juma’s art reflects on how we organise space and ourselves within it. It encourages the viewer to consider the unseen rules that govern structure, culture, and perception.
Together, the three artists construct a shared yet layered vocabulary of thresholds, where architecture becomes a site of passage rather than permanence. Through quiet intensity and formal clarity, the exhibition reflects on how we navigate the spaces between memory and imagination, stability and transformation.
To get more information about Architectures of the In-Between, please go to the official web page of the exhibition.
Additionally, you might be interested in visiting Sunrise at the Vortex, Nima Nabavi’s solo exhibition.
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