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15/10/2026

“I wanted my sculpture to feel a bit calm at first, but the more you look at them, the more unsettling and uneasy and emotional they become.”

Maitha Alhouli on Vein of Silence, her black stoneware work in MONOCHROMA 2.

The project, in her words, is about “the presence of unspoken emotions, and how feelings can exist inside the body without being visible”. Smooth surfaces suggest calm on the outside, while hollow spaces reveal what has escaped or remains trapped inside.

Maitha Alhouli is an artist based in Sharjah.

Fourth of a series of artist interviews from the exhibition.

MONOCHROMA 2 · Black & White
Gallery M, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Closing Sunday, 18 October
Curated by Kamal Al Zoubi · Co-curated by Marita Setas Ferro

Presented by Double J Collective, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi and the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

Kamal Al ZoubiUntitled, from the series FlowHand-built stoneware fragments whose interlocking forms and carved edges rea...
13/10/2026

Kamal Al Zoubi
Untitled, from the series Flow

Hand-built stoneware fragments whose interlocking forms and carved edges read like a script without letters, gathered into circular wall compositions and standing totems. The work continues the artist’s meditation on balance as a lived and sculpted state, where fire, hand and time leave their echoes in the clay.

Kamal Al Zoubi is a Jordanian ceramic artist and curator based between Amman and Dubai, with a practice spanning more than two decades. Head of the Ceramics and Sculpture Department at the Al Jalila Cultural Centre since 2014 and Creative Director of House of Clay, he curated Ceramic House at SIKKA Art Fair and the first edition of Monochroma. He is the curator of MONOCHROMA 2.

Stoneware
Circular wall compositions and standing totems

MONOCHROMA 2 · Black & White
Gallery M, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Until 18 October 2026
Curated by Kamal Al Zoubi · Co-curated by Marita Setas Ferro

Presented by Double J Collective, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi and the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

Cybelle MoutranIn the Spur · Fragments of TimeIn the Spur explores courage as an instinct, a sudden surge that pushes us...
13/10/2026

Cybelle Moutran
In the Spur · Fragments of Time

In the Spur explores courage as an instinct, a sudden surge that pushes us to act despite fear, danger or uncertainty. It captures that instinctive pulse: the moment when strength overtakes hesitation, when the body and the mind remember how to stand tall. Through five ceramic forms, the emotional topography of courage unfolds with its tremors, ruptures and quiet recoveries. Clay, with its fragility and steadfastness, becomes both witness and vessel.

In a landscape marked by collective trauma and silence, In the Spur speaks to the courage of persistence, the will to move forward, rebuild and remain visible. Cybelle Moutran is a Lebanese ceramic artist based between Beirut and Dubai. Her installation On a Sidewalk, a tribute to the victims of the Beirut port explosion, is on permanent display at Beit Beirut.

Shown alongside it, Fragments of Time explores separation, longing and reunion through a two-part narrative. The first part draws on old-fashioned calendars, each rendered in a distinct style to capture shifting moods and states of mind; these calendars engage in a silent dialogue on waiting and missing. The second brings reunion to life through movement, varied textures and text woven with memory and storytelling. Together, these fragments of time transform absence into connection.

In the Spur, stoneware with underglaze, five pieces, from 30 × 25 × 25 cm to 45 × 25 × 25 cm
Fragments of Time, porcelain mural installation, 300 × 250 cm

MONOCHROMA 2 · Black & White
Gallery M, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Until 18 October 2026
Curated by Kamal Al Zoubi · Co-curated by Marita Setas Ferro

📸 Kenneth Sagar

Presented by Double J Collective, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi and the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

Nessma DjouhriOnce Upon a Time There Were Seven CastlesA series of seven ceramic, dollhouse-scale buildings, each carryi...
13/10/2026

Nessma Djouhri
Once Upon a Time There Were Seven Castles

A series of seven ceramic, dollhouse-scale buildings, each carrying figurative and symbolic imagery across its surfaces. Open windows act as points of entry and exposure, inviting the viewer to project inward. Here, everything is visible and permeable, and the boundaries between shelter and ruin begin to give way.

Nessma Djouhri is an Algerian ceramic artist based in Dubai, with a BFA in Fine Arts and History of Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her practice explores the history of objects, fragmented narratives and the storytelling potential of clay, influenced by archetypal imagery and Jungian thought. She has exhibited at EDIT Napoli and with the Diriyah Biennale Foundation.

Ceramic, series of seven dollhouse-scale buildings
W 7.5 – 20 cm · H 20 – 60 cm

MONOCHROMA 2 · Black & White
Gallery M, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Until 18 October 2026
Curated by Kamal Al Zoubi · Co-curated by Marita Setas Ferro

📸 Kenneth Sagar

Presented by Double J Collective, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi and the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

Marie-France ScottA Dialogue in MonochromeA group of sculptures born from a single curved slab of clay. Through intentio...
12/10/2026

Marie-France Scott
A Dialogue in Monochrome

A group of sculptures born from a single curved slab of clay. Through intentional fracture and meticulous reassembly, the work navigates the fragile boundary between the individual and the collective. As each segment is joined, a silent negotiation unfolds: some pieces surrender to a shared harmony, while others emerge as disruptors, resisting the pull of order.

Within their interlocking curves lies the eternal struggle, the comfort of the collective against the defiance of the singular. Harmony is not found in perfection, but in the gripping tension of elements that refuse to be constrained, holding the structural unity together through sheer force of will. Marie-France Scott is an Anglo-Turkish ceramic artist born in Paris, working in predominantly abstract, unglazed forms that explore the relationship between movement and stillness, harmony and tension.

Stoneware, from the Oval and Interlocked series
White Sentinel 48 × 34 × 14 cm · Dark Sentinel 43 × 40 × 15 cm · Dialogue 2, pair, 30 × 51 × 75 cm each · Dialogue 4, 21 × 28 × 30 cm

MONOCHROMA 2 · Black & White
Gallery M, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Until 18 October 2026
Curated by Kamal Al Zoubi · Co-curated by Marita Setas Ferro

📸 Kenneth Sagar

Presented by Double J Collective, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi and the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

Parul ParasramkaForms in Dialogue · Fragments of BecomingForms in Dialogue is a collection of spherical ceramic forms ex...
12/10/2026

Parul Parasramka
Forms in Dialogue · Fragments of Becoming

Forms in Dialogue is a collection of spherical ceramic forms exploring the layered archetypes of womanhood. Intricate black-and-white illustrations of female figures, animals and symbolic imagery flow across each surface, creating conversations between vulnerability, strength, memory and identity. As the viewer moves around the forms, fragmented narratives gradually reveal themselves, reflecting womanhood as complex, fluid and constantly evolving.

Shown alongside it, Fragments of Becoming explores confinement, fragility and the gradual transformation of selfhood through time. Female figures intertwine with botanical forms, where leaves, veins and organic lines become extensions of the body. Layered marks, monochromatic washes and fine cracks move across the surfaces like emotional timelines, recording pressure, memory and lived experience. Areas of dense blackness create psychological voids where the figure appears to dissolve, shifting between presence and disappearance.

Through clay, drawing and fracture, Fragments of Becoming considers the body as a fragile archive, carrying memory, tenderness, wounds and traces of an identity continually becoming.

Forms in Dialogue, white stoneware with porcelain slip, spherical forms
Fragments of Becoming, black stoneware with porcelain slip, mural installation of eight discs

MONOCHROMA 2 · Black & White
Gallery M, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Until 18 October 2026
Curated by Kamal Al Zoubi · Co-curated by Marita Setas Ferro

📸 Kenneth Sagar

Presented by Double J Collective, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi and the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

Anila AshrafEmbedded WhispersPorcelain vessels pressed into raw, textured slabs of clay. The slabs resemble eroded terra...
12/10/2026

Anila Ashraf
Embedded Whispers

Porcelain vessels pressed into raw, textured slabs of clay. The slabs resemble eroded terrain, while the vessels appear partly uncovered, as if revealed by time. The contrast between smooth, fragile forms and fractured surfaces speaks to resilience within vulnerability: strength is not found in perfection but in what endures.

Anila Ashraf is a Dubai-based ceramic artist whose practice, Latakhaf, meaning do not be afraid, is rooted in wheel throwing, altered forms and experimental firings such as Raku and Obvara. Her collections have been shown at SIKKA Art Fair, and she is an active ceramics educator across the UAE, having taught and mentored hundreds of students in Sharjah and Dubai.

Porcelain
Wall installation

MONOCHROMA 2 · Black & White
Gallery M, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Until 18 October 2026
Curated by Kamal Al Zoubi · Co-curated by Marita Setas Ferro

📸 Kenneth Sagar

Presented by Double J Collective, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi and the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

Hélène OliveMarine Fossils, What the Sea Left for MeRooted in the lineage of Relational Art, Hélène Olive’s sentimental ...
11/10/2026

Hélène Olive
Marine Fossils, What the Sea Left for Me

Rooted in the lineage of Relational Art, Hélène Olive’s sentimental ceramics gather memories and evoke what resists language. The totems carry photographic traces of shells collected by the artist at sea: relics of fleeting moments, each holding the memory of its place and time. This work speaks of impermanence. Everything transforms, everything is in motion.

Hélène Olive is a French artist based in Dubai, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts of Toulouse in spatial design and scenography. Her polymorphic practice spans ceramics, sound installation and scenography. Under the label ChoSE, she creates sentimental ceramics born from dialogue and shared experience.

White stoneware, glazed, with photographic decals
Chapter 2, six elements: Black Current 24 × 24 × 82 cm · White Current 24 × 24 × 89 cm · Black Shell Totem and White Shell Totem 48 × 24 cm · Black Specimen 26 × 26 × 26 cm · Layers 24 × 30 × 24 cm

MONOCHROMA 2 · Black & White
Gallery M, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Until 18 October 2026
Curated by Kamal Al Zoubi · Co-curated by Marita Setas Ferro

📸 Kenneth Sagar

Presented by Double J Collective, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi and the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

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