Tashkeel has organised Unfolding, the first solo exhibition by Emirati artist Moza Al Falasi, which is on display at Tashkeel’s Nad Al Sheba gallery until 26 June 2026. The exhibition marks the culmination of the artist’s participation in the Critical Practice Programme (CPP), Tashkeel’s year-long mentorship initiative designed to support UAE-based artists in creating ambitious new bodies of work. Developed under the guidance of artists and mentors Luisa Menano and Hanaa Bou Hamdan, Unfolding brings together photography, sound, painting, plaster, fabric, and mixed-media installation to examine how memory, grief, and inherited experiences shape our understanding of place and identity.
The show focuses on the idea of the house not as a physical structure that can be faithfully reconstructed, but as an emotional landscape that continues to exist long after it has changed or disappeared. Al Falasi does not document a specific home, but explores the traces left behind by lived experience. Rooms become impressions, walls become textures, and familiar spaces dissolve into fragments of sensation and recollection. Through this approach, the artist proposes that places do not end when we leave them. Instead, they persist within memory, constantly reshaped by time, absence, and personal experience.
Working across multiple mediums allows Al Falasi to evoke these elusive states with remarkable sensitivity. Photography serves as a starting point, but the artist extends beyond documentation into a more tactile and immersive exploration of remembrance. Plaster surfaces carry impressions reminiscent of architectural details, while fabrics suggest the intimacy of domestic life and the vulnerability of things preserved through touch. Sound works weave through the exhibition like memories, appearing and fading in ways that mirror the instability of recollection itself. These elements create an environment that invites viewers to experience memory as something physical and spatial.
The exhibition’s title, Unfolding, reflects the way personal histories reveal themselves gradually rather than in a linear sequence. Childhood memories, family narratives, inherited grief, and recent experiences of loss overlap and intermingle throughout the show. Time becomes fragmented; past and present coexist, and moments of remembrance emerge unexpectedly from materials, sounds, and images. The domestic sphere, often associated with stability and comfort, appears as something fragile and incomplete. Home is presented as an evolving emotional condition, shaped by both presence and absence.
One of the recurring motifs throughout the exhibition is the olive tree, which appears in a series of paintings depicting women alongside its branches and roots. These figures suggest resilience in the face of uncertainty. The olive tree, weathered yet enduring, becomes a metaphor for persistence, continuity, and the ability to withstand loss without fully resolving it. These works resist easy narratives of healing or closure: they acknowledge grief as an ongoing condition that remains intertwined with memory and identity.
Unfolding functions less as a sequence of artworks than as an atmosphere of reflection. Meaning is not presented directly but emerges through careful observation, sensory engagement, and moments of quiet contemplation. The displayed artworks encourage visitors to consider how memories inhabit objects, how grief transforms our relationship to familiar places, and how traces of the past continue to shape the present. Rather than reconstructing a lost home, Al Falasi creates a space in which the emotional residue of home remains active, unresolved, and deeply alive. In doing so, Unfolding offers a poignant exploration of remembrance and the enduring connections between place, identity, and loss.
About the artist
Moza Al Falasi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dubai, whose practice encompasses painting, photography, printmaking, and mixed media. After discovering a passion for visual art at an early age, she pursued a Fine Arts degree at Zayed University and has since developed a practice centred on memory, inheritance, and the ways personal and collective histories shape individual identity. Her recent projects have explored ancestral narratives, grief, and the lingering impact of experiences passed from one generation to the next. Through intuitive and process-driven methods, she investigates how emotional histories become embedded within people and places.
In recent years, Al Falasi has taken part in several significant exhibitions and programmes across the UAE. These include presentations at the Cultural Foundation (Abu Dhabi), the Emirates Fine Arts Society Annual Exhibition (Sharjah), and Al Marmoom: Film in the Desert (Dubai). She is also a fellow of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship and has participated in Art Dubai’s Public Art Education Programme.
To get more information about Unfolding, please go to its official web page.
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