Art Dubai 2026: Booth D4
Overview
Special Edition
Thursday, 14 May 2pm – 9pm By invitation only; Friday, 15 May 4pm – 9pm; Saturday, 16 May 2pm – 9pm; Sunday, 17 May 12pm – 6pm
https://www.artdubai.ae/art-dubai-fair/
For Art Dubai 2026, lilia ben salah gallery brings together Amal Abdenour (1931–2020) and Zoulikha Bouabdellah (1977) in an intergenerational dialogue that places Arab women artists at the intersection of technology, history, transmission, embodiment, and memory. Rather than approaching the digital as rupture or spectacle, the presentation traces a lineage, revealing how different technological moments become tools through which the body records displacement, experience, and political presence across time. Seen together, Abdenour and Bouabdellah do not stand in contrast but in succession. Their works mark two moments within the same history of image production, where technologies evolve while the fundamental questions of embodiment and memory persist.
Works
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Amal Abdenour, Autoportrait à la Nefertiti, 1974-79 -
Amal Abdenour, Autoportrait vert, 1974 -
Amal Abdenour, Maman ne pleure pas! Je suis bien! 1, 1974-79 -
Amal Abdenour, Maman ne pleure pas! Je suis bien! 2, 1974-79 -
Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Archéologie artificielle / Artificial Archeology 1, 2026 -
Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Archéologie artificielle / Artificial Archeology 2, 2026 -
Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Archéologie artificielle / Artificial Archeology 3, 2026 -
Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Archéologie artificielle / Artificial Archeology 4, 2026 -
Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Archéologie artificielle / Artificial Archeology 5, 2026 -
Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Artificial Archeology 6, 2026
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