Wafa Al Falahi's first solo exhibition with Hunna Art, Feathers in the Reeds, Milk in the Mud, runs from 3 to 24 November 2026 in Dubai. The show inaugurates the gallery's temporary space in Alserkal Avenue, bringing together paintings on paper and ceramic sculptures by the Emirati multidisciplinary artist.

Hybrid creatures dance, wait, hide and converse across dreamlike landscapes, forming an imaginary bestiary shaped by memory, childhood and fantasy. Raised in thick relief from papier-mache, pastel and pigment, the figures emerge through processes reminiscent of the Rorschach test, with dissolving colours forming soft islands that blossom and then disappear.

Drawing on a lineage of fables and imagined beings, from Ibn al-Muqaffa' to Leonora Carrington, Al Falahi's works carry no fixed morals. In the ceramic sculptures, the creatures step out of their painted landscapes to meet the viewer on common ground.

Al Falahi works across ceramics, interiors, furniture and experimental materials, and was previously part of Hunna Art's group exhibition Under Her Wing and presented a solo booth with the gallery at Art Dubai in May 2026. Her practice gives tangible form to the subconscious, using surrealist and hallucinatory imagery to explore the space between clarity and distortion.

Al Falahi graduated in interior design from the American University of Sharjah and has taken part in Tashkeel's Tanween Design Programme, a residency at the Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi and the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship. Her recent Fever Dream series uses raw canvas, mixed media and ceramics to materialise the in-betweenness of the psyche and the physical world, with birds and beasts exploring existential questions through surrealist and hallucinatory imagery.