Location: AWL Gallery, Girona / Abu Dhabi / Los Angeles
Date: October 2025, ahead of Abu Dhabi Art Fair
Project: Sara Alahbabi and Aisha Alhammadi join AWL Gallery
Why it Matters: Adds two artists working with material process and architectural language to a cross-regional gallery program
AWL Gallery has added Emirati artists Sara Alahbabi and Aisha Alhammadi to its program ahead of its participation in Abu Dhabi Art Fair this November. The move comes in collaboration with cultural strategist Lateefa Bin Hamoodah, and extends the gallery’s recent presence in the UAE. Founded in Girona in 2024, AWL has been building a program that focuses on postcolonial context, regional links, and process-based practices, with parallel activity now taking shape in Abu Dhabi and Los Angeles.
Alahbabi works in sculpture, installation, photography and sound. A lot of her work starts from the city—more specifically, from Abu Dhabi. She spends time walking, noticing things most people miss. Small structures, leftover spaces, bits of architecture. These show up later in her sculptures. In her current series, Wind’s Eye: Characters Archive, she uses forms like window frames and structural fragments. They feel like parts taken from somewhere else and quietly put together again.
Alhammadi works with marble, carving repeated forms that take inspiration from Islamic geometry. She often focuses on structure and rhythm, letting the shape of the material guide the outcome. In some of her recent pieces, she has brought embroidery into the work, placing it directly alongside stone. In Duality (2025), the two materials are placed side by side, without overlapping.
Both artists will be included in AWL’s presentation at Abu Dhabi Art. The gallery’s announcement places them in a program that treats material, process, and place as central concerns.
