Hot Spots, A Collaboration Between Tabari Artspace and The Third Line | Sotheby’s, DIFC: Adel El Siwi, Almaha Jaralla, Aya Haidar, Béchir Boussandel, Hanna Noor Mahomed, Hashel Al Lamki, Margaux Derhy, Nasser Almulhim

9 January - 10 March 2025

Almaha Jaralla Emirati , b. 1996

Focal point, 2024

Acrylic and oil on canvas

140 x 240 cm
55 1/8 x 94 1/2 in

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C01552

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Almaha Jaralla paints a scene steeped in nostalgia. Her large-format canvas depicts a vintage Mercedes, its presence both a status symbol of 1990s UAE and a portal into her personal history. Parked outside an ADNOC station, the car forms a portrait of familial narrative, tying the artist’s memories to the region’s landscape. Jaralla's dreamlike use of acrylic and oil on canvas invests the work with a sense of time preserved, where the ordinary pulses with mythic significance.

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