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Nada Elkalaawy

NADA ELKALAAWY

The Butterfly’s Burden Lawrie Shabibi 23 September 2026 Dubai
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Nada Elkalaawy’s forthcoming solo exhibition, The Butterfly’s Burden, opens at Lawrie Shabibi on 23 September 2026. Bringing together a new body of paintings, the exhibition explores memory, loss and transformation through layered compositions that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. Drawing on personal archives, found imagery and recurring symbolic motifs, Elkalaawy creates evocative spaces where presence and absence, remembrance and renewal, unfold in quiet dialogue.

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Lawrie Shabibi is a Dubai-based contemporary art gallery that presents work by international artists, with an emphasis on contemporary Middle Eastern, North African and diaspora art.

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Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue
Al-Quoz 1
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Opening Hours
Monday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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Dubai Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Al-Quoz 1
Lawrie Shabibi contemporary art gallery in Dubai United Arab Emirates
Lawrie Shabibi
Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Al-Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
+971 4 346 9906
http://www.lawrieshabibi.com

Opening hours
Monday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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