Abu Dhabi Art 2025
For our third participation at Abu Dhabi Art, Booth D7, Under the Star of Vision invites visitors into the gallery’s exploration of light as a metaphor for perception, knowledge, and transformation. The presentation brings together four artists, Mahjoub Ben Bella, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Farah Khelil, and Mohamed Lekleti, whose works engage the viewer in a dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity, matter and spirit, form and meaning. Each piece opens a passage between memory and imagination, inviting us to experience art as both illumination and transformation, a quiet movement toward unity.
– Mahjoub Ben Bella, a historic figure of contemporary painting, is a master of color and composition, who transforms painting into a living script, where the sensual rhythm of his pictorial gesture conveys both intensity and serenity. His works turn abstraction into a space where light, form, and texture converge, creating an encounter charged with emotion and memory.
- Zoulikha Bouabdellah transforms language into a sculptural, immersive experience with a wall installation evoking the words Hya and Huwa (She and He). Through bold, vividly colored calligraphic forms, the work explores the interplay of identity, presence, and love, creating a space that resonates with both humanity and universality, where rhythm, tension, and dialogue shape an emotional and spiritual experience.
– Farah Khelil explores sensorial and conceptual dimensions through layered compositions of materials, signs, and geometry, using writing and technology as tools to connect, reflect, and reconfigure how visual culture is perceived, experienced, and interpreted.
– Mohamed Lekleti creates a contemporary visual language where abstraction, myth, and storytelling converge to explore memory, identity, and contemporary concerns. His new drawings for Abu Dhabi Art reveal the energy and rhythm embedded in each gesture, transforming line and space into contemplative narratives that engage perception and imagination.
Together, these artists embody a shared sensibility, embracing transformation as a path toward renewed ways of seeing, being, and connecting. The gallery weaves a dialogue between memory and movement, heritage and reinvention, matter and light, celebrating art as a luminous space where forms, gestures, and ideas resonate beyond the immediate. This presentation is a tribute to the light flowing through these works, the same light that moves through us when we recognize ourselves in art.
