The exhibition will mark the culmination of her journey with the Tashkeel Critical Practice Programme (CPP), through which the artist was mentored by Luisa Menano and Hanaa Bou Hamdan, developing her practice across both research and production. Moza’s first solo presentation explores memory, loss, and the passing of time, and will be on show in the Nad Al Sheba 1 Gallery in Dubai until 26th June. Launched in 2014, Tahkeel’s Critical Practice Programme provides UAE-based artists with sustained funding, studio access, and mentorship over twelve months to push the boundaries of their practice and realise ambitious projects.
Through her practice, Moza navigates life’s complexities and explores how grief reshapes our inner landscapes, inviting reflection on how personal and inherited experiences leave their mark on who we are. She uses photography as her primary means of documentation, alongside sound, painting, plaster, and fabric, but she does not limit herself to recording the physical reality of a space; rather, she seeks to capture its tangible resonance.
Moza Al Falasi says: “My work is deeply rooted in the complexities of inherited grief—the sorrow passed down through generations, shaping identity in both visible and unseen ways. I explore how personal and ancestral memories become entangled with identity, weaving a tapestry of emotions that transcend time. This inquiry became more profound following the loss of my parents and, more recently, my husband, compelling me to examine grief not only as a personal experience but as an inherited weight that alters our inner landscapes. My art has become a means to navigate both the emotions of loss and the complexities of life, revealing the deeply personal and collective experience of grief. Whether my practice serves as a form of healing or a visual documentation of grief remains uncertain.”
Acrylic on digital print
H 71.00cm X W 54.00cm
Unfolding
Places do not end when we leave them. They continue within us, reshaped by memory, loss, and the passing of time. For Moza’s first solo exhibition, Unfolding, she approaches the house not as a building to be reconstructed, but as something unstable: a field of feeling dispersed across fragments, surfaces, and echoes.
Working across photography, sound, painting, plaster, and fabric, she does not try to document a lost home. Instead, she traces what lingers. Textures that recall walls. Impressions pressed into soft materials. Sounds that appear and fade, much like memory itself. These gestures are not about seeing from a distance, but about touching, encountering, and feeling presence in absence.
What emerges is not a single story. Childhood, family, grief, and recent loss overlap and fold in on themselves. Time no longer moves in a straight line. The domestic space becomes vulnerable rather than secure, fractured, layered, incomplete.
The paintings of women alongside olive trees do not offer resolution. They suggest endurance. The olive tree, rooted and weathered, becomes a symbol of persistence, of continuing in the presence of absence.
This exhibition is not a sequence but an environment. You are not standing outside looking in. You move through an architecture of perception, where meaning is not given but emerges through stillness and encounter. What you will find here is not a house rebuilt. It is a house that remains unresolved, fragile, and deeply alive.
Digital print on archival paper
H 112.00cm X W 78.00cm
Gerbou Collaboration
Tashkeel has extended the exhibition experience beyond the gallery through an ongoing collaboration with Gerbou Restaurant, located adjacent to the gallery. For each exhibition, Gerbou’s chefs interview the exhibiting artist, drawing on their stories, materials, and palette to create a dessert (Tashkeel Artist Special), that embodies the essence of the show. For Unfolding, Al Falasi imagined a flavour that moves between sweet and salt, reflecting the emotional landscape of the exhibition. Sweetness evokes tenderness, intimacy, and the comfort of memory, while salt carries the trace of grief, tears, and what remains after loss. Together, these flavours create something layered and unresolved, much like the afterlife of a house: a place that no longer exists in the same way, yet continues to live within us.
About Moza Al Falasi
Moza Al Falasi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dubai, working across painting, mixed media, photography, and printmaking. Her artistic journey began at a young age with a passion for painting and photography, leading her to pursue a Fine Arts degree at Zayed University. Her work explores the complexities of grief, memory, and inheritance, examining how personal and collective experiences shape identity across generations. Through her practice, Moza navigates life’s complexities and explores how grief reshapes our inner landscapes, inviting reflection on how personal and inherited experiences leave their mark on who we are.
Moza is currently a fellow artist at the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship (SEAF) in Abu Dhabi, an ongoing program supporting her multidisciplinary practice, and participated in the Dubai Public Art Education Programme by Art Dubai earlier in 2025.
Previous residencies, including the Tashkeel Critical Practice Programme(2024) and the I.E Art Project online residency (2023), have helped shape her intuitive, process-driven approach.
About Tashkeel
Tashkeel is an incubator of visual art & design and a commercial consultancy rooted in the United Arab Emirates. Established in Dubai in 2008 by Sheikha Lateefa bint Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Tashkeel’s facilities enable production, experimentation and discourse. Its annual programme of training, residencies, workshops, talks, exhibitions, international collaborations and publications aims to further practitioner development, public engagement and lifelong learning. And its commercial services seek to embed UAE-made art and design in the very fabric of society and the economy. By nurturing the growth of contemporary art and design, Tashkeel seeks to empower the country’s ever growing creative and cultural industries.
Tashkeel’s commercial services include Consultancy, ranging from advisory, sales, design and production services and special projects for a wide range of clients; Training, the development and delivery of art-based learning for the education, cultural, public and private sectors; Membership, providing comprehensive access for the creative community to facilities and studios to research, experiment, make and collaborate; and Printing & Cutting Services of laser-cutting, fine art/photography & risograph printing; and Retail, selling UAE-made art and design products instore and online as well as across a nationwide network of partners.
Tashkeel’s incubator initiatives include: Tanween, which takes a cohort of UAE-based designers through a one-year skills development programme, taking a product inspired by the UAE from concept to completion; Critical Practice, which invites visual artists to embark on a one-year skills development programme of studio practice, mentorship and training, culminating in a major solo presentation; Residencies at Tashkeel or abroad, ranging in duration and often in partnership with international partners; Make Works UAE, an online platform connecting creatives and fabricators to enable designers and artists accurate and efficient access to the UAE manufacturing sector; Exhibitions & Fairs to highlight innovation and excellence, growing audience for art & design in the UAE.
For more informatiom, please visit https://tashkeel.org/ and @tashkeelstudio.
