“A form is never finished, only paused.” — Alia Lootah
In this new body of work, Alia Lootah deepens her exploration of how form moves, shifts, and transforms across painting, drawing, and sculpture. Her practice traces the life of shapes as they stretch, collapse, and reappear in altered states, existing in a space between recognition and ambiguity. Knitted sculptures anchor the exhibition, demonstrating how simple materials can generate complexity through repetition and touch. For Lootah, knitting is a meditative, rhythmic act shaped by memory and labor. These pliant structures counter the solidity of their pedestals, highlighting tensions between softness and stability, movement and stillness. Everyday materials connect the works to domestic gestures and lived experience while keeping their meanings open and evolving. Her paintings and drawings echo the internal motion of the sculptural pieces, with lines that loop back, fragment, and reconfigure. Ideas migrate fluidly between mediums, shifting their interpretations as they change material form. Together, these works offer a quiet meditation on transformation not as dramatic change but as slow, subtle evolution rooted in time, attention, and repeated gesture. The exhibition invites viewers to engage patiently, witnessing forms that are always unfolding, always becoming.
