DUAL DUAL

Artist:  Ola Nilsson

The exhibition explores a space where the intimate and the structural meet without resolution. Ola Nilsson approaches the domestic not as stability, but as a space where memory, absence, and perception remain in motion. Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s “trembling thinking,” the works present instability as a condition of understanding, where all living things can be understood as vibrating, and where oscillation marks a continuous movement between positions that never ceases.
At the center lies a gesture of return. Photographs taken in the artist’s mother’s home after her passing hold a moment that resists closure. The room remains unchanged, but the space is empty. Presence becomes absence, carrying a silent rupture not as opposition but as structure. The loss here is embedded.
The blinds create rhythm and repetition that unsettle perception. Their movement extends the sense of instability, what is revealed soon withdraws, and what disappears returns. The viewer enters a cycle where the boundaries between self and other remain fluid.
Nilsson maintains these tensions without seeking resolution. The domestic becomes a place where care and its withdrawal coexist. Rather than telling a story, the work opens new horizons where absence is not an end, but something that stays with us.

One Room, many stories

Artists:  Hela Ammar - Shiva Anoushirvani - Jessica Azizeh - Hadia Gana - Diana Jabi - Raeda Saadah

Curator: Abir Boukhari

One Room, Many Stories brings together female artists whose works emerge from lived experience and attentive observation of the world around them. Each artist presents a fragment, a gesture, a trace of a story that reflects the moment we inhabit.
The works move through questions of struggle, authority, memory, and resilience. They do not attempt to explain or resolve these stories. Instead, they offer statements that open different ways of seeing the forces that shape our lives.
Within the limits of a single room, the works encounter one another and form unexpected relations. One work answers another across the space, and what once appeared distant begins to feel familiar.
The room becomes a place of encounters where narratives approach, separate, and return in different ways. Meaning moves between the works and those who spend time with them, as the stories begin with the artists and extend outward to touch other lives and places. In that movement, the hidden threads that connect our worlds slowly become visible.