Nujoom Alghenem: Unframed

The exhibition identifies key moments from Nujoom’s two-decade-plus career as an artist, poet, and filmmaker, looking beyond the metaphoric film reel and focusing one frame at a time. Nujoom’s creative productions read like visual essays.

One example is Between Two Shores, a recent large acrylic and charcoal painting of ghostly white figures that hover over orange water. Dedicated to fleeing children who were lost their journey to Europe, the painting first manifested as something that pierced Nujoom’s heart, then struck her hand that felt compelled to write poetry and then became a graphic manifestation as a painting.

For the first time, Nujoom presents photographs – stills from her films – with select handwritten verses of her own poetry.