Installation at Abrahamic House, 2025
Aisha Alhammadi’s practice explores the emotional and spiritual possibilities of geometric form. Through labor-intensive processes like carving and etching, she transforms materials such as marble into quiet meditations on memory, devotion, and transformation. Repetition, disintegration, and silence are central to her work, which invites viewers into a slowed encounter with structure and space.
Geometry, in her hands, is not simply a visual language—it is a living system. Early in her practice, she was drawn to the symbolic logic of Islamic patterns, particularly their sense of unity and interconnectedness. Over time, her interest has shifted toward geometry itself: as a vessel for stillness, fragility, and the breakdown of order. Each shape becomes a trace of time, a gesture toward the unseen, and a point of connection between form and feeling.
In Transcending Symmetry, she investigates the gradual unraveling of a single geometric structure across carved surfaces. The work reflects on erosion, rhythm, and the beauty of incompletion. By emphasizing voids, edges, and the tension between symmetry and entropy, she makes visible the subtle poetics of material transformation.
Architectural memory weaves through her work—not through direct representation, but as texture and rhythm. Courtyards, thresholds, and built environments reappear as echoes—filtered through material, pattern, and atmosphere.
Alhammadi’s work resists definitive meaning. It offers instead a reflective space, shaped by absence, stillness, and the metaphysical weight of what remains unsaid.