CLOSING TODAY Nja Mahdaoui: the Choreographer of Letters

This focused retrospective surveys over six decades of practice by the Tunisian multimedia artist Nja Mahdaoui, an influential figures in Arab modern art who repurposed Arabic calligraphy into a visual and abstract contemporary art form. This show, o-curated by Michaela Watrelot, head curator and director of exhibitions at Bassam Freiha Art Foundation, and the artist’s daughter Molka Mahdaoui, bridges tradition and modernity to signify notions of identity and heritage.