Art Dubai

NIKA Project Space’s booth at Art Dubai 2025 features three artists, Nazilya Nagimova, Adrian Pepe, and Mirna Bamieh. Two of them, Adrian Pepe and Nazilya Nagimova, use felt, wool, and traditional craft techniques as their primary materials to explore themes of memory and identity. By deeply engaging with the traditional techniques of their local cultures and ancestors, each artist addresses the interaction between nature and humans. Animism becomes an important part of almost any southern or nomadic culture, simultaneously raising important ecological issues and concerns.

Ceramic objects and drawings by Mirna Bamieh will complement the presentation. They are also connected to the national traditions of her native Palestine, which the artist reinterprets, particularly the tradition of fermentation, widely used in traditional Palestinian recipes. Additionally, these sculptures of citrus ceramic pieces explore the stages of grieving and preservation, linking personal grief with universal experiences and reflecting on the ongoing Palestinian experience of war and displacement.

NIKA Project Space is pleased to be sharing a booth with Iragui Gallery, a collaboration that reflects our existing relationship as neighbors within the Komunuma art cluster in Paris, where both galleries are based in the same space.