Magic and Artifice: Desert X AlUla 2022Rahel AimaArtReview26 May 2022Rahel Aima unearths ancient scripts and thermodynamic sea creatures in one of the Arabian Peninsula’s oldest cities
Can Gen-Z’s Khaleejiness Escape Institutionalisation In The Gulf?Rahel AimaArtReview Asia14 December 2021A photo exhibition brings together the work of twelve young artists on the subject of the Khaleeji identity today
A Subtle Metaphor for Dubai: ‘The Distance from Here’, ReviewedRahel AimaArtReview Asia06 December 2021A group show at Jameel Arts Centre reflects on liminal spaces and in-betweens in a city shaped by migration and displacement
‘Growing Like A Tree’ at Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai – ReviewRahel AimaArtReview Asia11 August 2021A group show brings together 14 artists and collectives from across South and Southeast Asia to consider image-making and community, and image-making in community
‘To My Ancestors, Human and Not Human’: the Art of Ayman ZedaniRahel AimaArtReview Asia21 July 2021Zedani’s works eschew the palette and timbre of Gulf Futurism to instead consider the future of the Gulf
Keep the Lights On: Noor Riyadh FestivalRahel AimaArtReview25 June 2021The light festival of Saudi Arabia’s capital might sound a bit lacklustre or corny, but it did exactly what it set out to do
Unspooling Stories: The Drawings of Toyin Ojih OdutolaRahel AimaArtReview17 December 2020Seeing the artist’s latest New York show is like ‘eavesdropping in a café or urban park-bench, so intimate is it in its anonymity’
