With a special focus on female voices from the Middle East and its diasporas, the exhibition explores how repetition, inherited techniques, and daily rituals of care and resistance shape meaning and form
On view until 6th May at Paris-based Hatch Gallery is Every Morning, A Time – a group exhibition that explores memory, material and history. The show has brought together ten renowned artists: Etel Adnan, Hayfa Algwaiz, Inji Efflatoun, Emilia Estrada, Nour Jaouda, Lamia Joreige, Yasmine El Meleegy, Filwa Nazer, Zayn Qahtani and Laila Tara H – whose practices are shaped by acts of assembling and reassembling. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and textile, the artists interact with the open-ended processes of fragmentation.
Above: Laila Tara H. Unsafeguard The Sweetest in our Dirt. 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Hatch Gallery
“The title Every Morning, A Time reflects a quiet insistence on repetition—not as stasis, but as a method of inquiry,” curator of the exhibition, Dr. Amina Diab tells ICONIQUE Arabia.
“Across interstitial spaces—between cultures, past and present, the visible and the unseen—these artists return to the world each day through gestures of making. Whether through the stitching of cloth, the tracing of memory, or the daily act of painting, their practices unfold—through daily rituals of making, inherited techniques, and repeated gestures of care, resistance, and reconfiguration.”
Above: Inji Efflatoun. Installation view. Photo by Aurelien Mole. Courtesy of Safarkhan Art Gallery
The artworks on display traverse between spaces, cultures, and the past and present. “There is a sensitivity in the artworks that doesn’t announce itself, but accumulates slowly through rhythm, slowness, and attention,” Amina continues. “I was drawn to practices that stay close to materials where stitching, drawing, writing, or mark-making become daily gestures. It’s in this repetition, this quiet insistence, that something lasting begins to take shape.”
Above: Curator Amina Diab. Photo by Christine Fenzl
As a curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art of the Middle East, Amina has played a major role in art events in Saudi Arabia, including the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, and the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale in Riyadh.
Above: Nour Jaouda. Untitled. 2025. Series of four cement relief. Photo by Aurelien Mole. Courtesy of the artist and Union Pacific
Her choice of artists for this exhibition was shaped by her longstanding understanding and curiosity of women artists from the region: “Inji Efflatoun is an artist I have spent years researching, and it feels deeply meaningful to position her within this dialogue,” she expresses.
“Including her alongside Etel Adnan, and in conversation with younger contemporary artists, is not about chronology—it is about tracing a lineage of artistic attention that spans decades and geographies, where repetition becomes a political and poetic strategy of survival, renewal and making sense of the world.”
Above: Zayn Qahtani. Familiar Waters. 2022. Graphite chrome gilt polylactide recycled cotton paper, Bahraini date palm paper. 30x21cm. Courtesy of the artist and Hunna Art Gallery
Through the evocative works, the artists travel between cities, languages and cultural contexts. This continuous movement informs their perspective of the world, constantly reshaping life as they know it.
Every Morning, A Time runs from 5th April until 6th May 2025 at Hatch Gallery, Paris.
