Moza Al Falasi: Art Born from Loss and Place

In the Project Space at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, artist Moza Al Falasi has created a body of work that traces the intimate geography of memory. Bodies that Make, Bodies that Grieve draws its emotional core from a singular place: the neighbourhood where her parents lived and, in time, passed away. Within these deeply personal recollections lies something far more universal, a meditation on how place shapes identity and how grief lingers within both the self and the spaces we inhabit.

Al Falasi’s practice emerges from the understanding that personal experience and artistic expression are inseparable. Her engagement with loss and healing flows through the work, a quiet but persistent current that invites us to consider our own relationships with memory and belonging. The connections she explores between place, identity, and grief speak to something essential about how we understand ourselves and our world. These experiences continue to inform and shape her artistic vision, creating work that resonates with the weight of what it means to remember, to mourn, and to endure.

Bodies that Make, Bodies that Grieve remains on view in the Project Space through 13 December 2026.