Living Room
About the Exhibition
An artist's gaze often travels outward, searching landscapes, cities, and ideas for a subject. Living Room asks for the opposite: to look at what is closest. The textures, marks, and leftovers of daily life that we see so often we stop noticing them.
Each artist turns this attention to the everyday, finding in what we usually overlook something personal and worth looking at.
Participating Artists
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Cristina Gabriela
Dubai-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores light, silence, and the unseen layers of human experience through textured abstraction and symbolic composition. Exhibited widely across the UAE, including ISOAG, Artezaar, and Reem Art Gallery.
@joellart_design_project -
Daria Avdeeva
UAE-based since 1997, with training across Russia, Bulgaria, and Italy. Her work blends classical technique with modern, colourful compositions inspired by still life, portraiture, and figurative painting.
@dariadrawsart -
Mrs. Helichrysum
Sophia van der Bank, also known as Mrs. Helichrysum, is an illustrator, storyteller, and self-taught creative based in Dubai, raised on a farm in South Africa's Drakensberg mountains. Currently working on her first published book.
@mrs.helichrysum -
Tanvi Patel
Canadian artist based in the UAE (known as Artscore), specialising in oil and acrylic on canvas. Her work is rooted in observation, inviting viewers to slow down and discover the story held within each piece.
@arts_core17 -
Seungeun Cho
South Korean artist based in the UAE, specialising in traditional still-life oil painting. Her practice pairs childhood toys with everyday objects to create quiet narratives around memory, home, and the passage of time.
@rambit_drawings -
Rollie Mukherjee
Indian artist, art critic, and poet based in Baroda, Gujarat, trained at Visva-Bharati and Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Her multidisciplinary practice explores memory, displacement, and identity.
@rolliemukherjee -
Nika Sagamonyants
Contemporary artist based in Dubai working with acrylic, charcoal, and coloured pencils. Her practice explores the inner world and human emotions, often drawing on family, home, and personal memory.
@nikxslex -
Tamara Vasilenko
Born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in 2001 and now based in Dubai. Her practice investigates identity as fluid and unstable, using hand embroidery and traditional craft techniques alongside a contemporary visual language.
@tvasilenko.art