Hujra — حُجرة

Hujra — حُجرة traces how flow crystallises onto canvas, how light becomes matter, and how painting absorbs the sound of vision. The exhibition stages a dialogue between Al Nayyar’s process and Seikaly’s curatorial approach — a parallel enquiry into how inner states of consciousness take form through body, material, and space. Presented within the raw architecture of Alserkal Avenue, the exhibition extends the psychological and elemental dimensions of the work into a spatial encounter of reflection and communion.

The title Hujra (حُجرة) translates to chamber and derives from the same root as hajar (حَجَر, stone). For Al Nayyar, the hujra is an inward space — a psychic chamber of origin and sanctuary, held within the density of stone. While Hujra remains an inner chamber, its reverberations unfold through space. The desert offers the first horizon, an expanse where time stretches and the seeker encounters vision. The studio, in turn, becomes a mirror: a place of introspection and integration, where what has been experienced is reflected on the surface of the canvas.