Until 24 October 2026, Green Art Gallery is hosting Private World, an exhibition featuring four artists: Lulua Alyahya, Rami Farook, Sohrab Hura, and Khaled Jarada. The show explores the personal, often elusive spaces that exist beneath the surface of everyday experience. Through paintings, works on paper, and intimate visual observations, the artists invite visitors to slow down and look beyond what is immediately visible. The exhibition becomes a space for reflection on solitude, memory, relationships, and the inner lives that rarely become fully accessible to others.
Many of the displayed artworks are small-scale; they encourage viewers to move closer and pay attention to small details, fleeting moments, and shifts in atmosphere. Here, privacy means more than being physically alone. It also describes a state of inward attention: the space where memories take shape, feelings are processed, and personal experiences acquire meaning. Each artist approaches this territory differently, creating a dialogue between individual perspectives rather than a uniform interpretation of what a private world might be.
Lulua Alyahya, a Saudi artist born in Washington, D.C., explores social relationships, identity, and interiority in her practice. She paints recognisable figures and objects with dreamlike settings, creating a tension between the ordinary and the surreal. In Private World, Alyahya’s paintings connect the exhibition’s interest in inward experience with the landscapes (both physical and psychological) that shape memory and imagination. Her work allows personal associations to coexist with broader cultural references. Rather than offering a fixed interpretation, these images leave space for viewers to bring their own experiences to what they see.
Emirati interdisciplinary artist Rami Farook got involved in the art world as a collector, gallerist, and patron before developing his own practice. In his practice, which spans painting and other forms of artistic experimentation, he reflects on the responsibilities of art and the relationship between personal convictions and the world around him.
Several of Farook’s artworks in the exhibition approach private experience through questions of belief, emotion, and reflection. Praying (during the fire), Dusk (during the fire), and Dawn (during the fire) return to the idea of what remains after a disruptive event. Meanwhile, Calm and We Can’t Keep The Talking Just In Our Heads suggest internal conversations and moments of contemplation. Together, these works bring the usually invisible processes of thought and emotional response into view.
Sohrab Hura, an Indian multidisciplinary artist based in New Delhi, is known for an autobiographical approach that connects personal experience with wider social realities. He works across photography, film, drawing, painting, sound, and text. His practice has evolved from documentary photography towards a broader exploration of personal relationships and how individuals experience the world.
For Private World, Hura presents gouache works on paper that explore intimacy through relationships, vulnerability, and observation. Father and Son, First Time Father, and Wound draw attention to moments of closeness and the emotional complexities they may contain. Other works, including Wave, Glorious Sunset, and The Astronomer, extend this contemplative approach towards the natural world.
Khaled Jarada is a Palestinian visual artist and an illustrator whose practice encompasses drawing, illustration, and video. Having experienced displacement and exile, he explores the unease of existing between places and states of belonging. His work focuses on figures caught in the middle of unfolding situations, with gestures and body language conveying uncertainty, tension, and vulnerability.
His contribution to the exhibition, Notebook (2026), consists of 23 ink drawings on paper drawn from a private diary. These sketches bring the immediacy of personal observation into the gallery. Their intimate origins create a meeting point between the artist’s private experience and the viewer’s interpretation, transforming fragments of an individual record into something that can be shared without losing its sense of personal significance.
What unites the four artists is an interest in experiences that resist straightforward explanation. Through diverse media, Private World considers how private feelings and memories might become visible without being reduced to a definitive story. Its emphasis on modest scale and close observation also offers a quieter alternative to the spectacle often associated with contemporary exhibition-making.
The show ultimately asks visitors to pay attention to what might otherwise go unnoticed: a gesture, an unfinished thought, or a remembered place. These fragments become points of connection between the artists and their audience. By bringing such personal material into a public setting, Private World examines a subtle paradox: even experiences that feel deeply individual can resonate with others. The exhibition gives visitors the chance to linger, look closely, and consider the many inner worlds that coexist, often unseen, within everyday life.
To get more information about Private World, please go to the official web page of the exhibition.
In addition, you might also be interested in viewing Infrared at NIKA Project Space and Interwoven at House of Arts.
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