Artist reception,
Opening: JULY 11th 2026 6-9pm
Artist reception,
Opening: JULY 11th 2026 6-9pm
Artist reception,
Opening: JULY 11th 2026 6-9pm
Artist reception,
Opening: JULY 11th 2026 6-9pm
Artist reception,
Opening: JULY 11th 2026 6-9pm
Artist reception,
Opening: JULY 11th 2026 6-9pm
Group show curated by Anaïs Bouchatta
With support from Awa M.M. Kah
July 9th - August 30th 2026
Artist reception,
Opening: JULY 11th 2026 6-9pm
CURATORIAL STATEMENT:
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Adrar Inu, or ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵉⵏⵓ , translates to
'My Mountains' in Tamazight. It is the title and the point of departure for this exhibition. The singer Idir's song "Adrar Inu" speaks about the same views that my mother holds just as dear to her.
The phrase 'I've left my mountains' carries a deeply personal significance for me, rooted in my family's history and in the politics the late Tamazight, Algerian singer wrote about. The song has long resonated within my family, especially with my mother, who is from the mountainside.
The mountains in the song are not simply a skyline of the country, but a large, rigid yet comforting blue on the horizon that encapsulates the feeling of home.
Every body of work carries a story within its creation, its medium, and then again in how it's placed as an object in this world.
The artists gathered here have each made that journey with their medium: across oceans, across languages, across disciplines, and are exhibiting this work at 201 @ 105.
By Hana Ibrahim
Adrar Inu (I've left my mountains)
Amirah Ibrahim
*Highlighted artist for the week
Artist Statement:
Amirah Ibrahim is an American-born, NYC photographer, raised by Ghanaian and Togolese parents of Nigerian Heritage. Amirah is a photographer, visual storyteller, and creative director. She has been in the creative scene for over 5 years, creating meaningful work that revolves around her identity as a Black Muslim woman.
Duality of Black
Color Digital Print
16” X 12"
ADR2026.14
Gargajiyamu
Color Digital Print
16" X 12"
ADR2026.15
Naaima Abd-Elhameed
*Highlighted artist for the week
Artist Statement:
Naaima Abd Elhameed uses her lens to capture the world around her, paying close attention to light, emotion, and movement as a form of storytelling. Inspired by virtually everything and everyone, she pursues portrait and event photography while finding her greatest excitement in street photography. Her aspiration is to continue taking her camera to all different parts of the world. After all, it's always her and her Sony.
This collection features some of her most cherished street photography to date. From New York and Egypt to Abu Dhabi, the images capture a variety of colors, contrast, and composition, all in service of redefining how we experience the world around us. Each photo was chosen with intention, with the hope that they make you feel something.
Oh, Fayoum
Color Digital Print
16” X 20"
ADR2026.08
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Color Digital Print
16” X 20”
ADR2026.05
Sunset on the Hudson
Color Digital Print
18” X 12”
ADR2026.07
The Feeling of Fayoum
Color Digital Print
12” X 18”
ADR2026.06
Curatorial Note:
Material memory has always been an interest of mine. There is a voice in travel, a voice in creation that is the same voice I feel when thinking about my voyage and leaving the country I was born in, Algeria, or the town I was born in, and the language I share with only a few, and how this shapes my identity and has shaped everything that came before.
I think of my role as a curator the way I think of an onion plant that keeps getting cut. Each time, something new pushes through, just like the time my family came into a new life despite not being able to bring everything or everyone with them. To grow in spite of the cutting, but because of it. The root holds the ability to grow again. What grows next is made possible by all that was carried by my mother and the mothers before her, beneath their suffering and sacrifice, and without the grounding of soil. We are all alike.
Anyone with a similar story of growth and struggle, even if different in scale. The sense of struggle within the diaspora or migration is not a tale unheard of, as it is not a tale at all. It's the reason as to why I appreciate the togetherness of art, community, and the richness of cultures in New York; there is a community within these themes and within the exhibition's walls.
This show is, in part, about that kind of resilience, but it is equally about the particular joy of working alongside others: of experiencing someone else's practice as an extension of themselves. There is a weaving of similarities and differences at the same time.
The works here are evidence of minds at work and of stories finding the medium that could hold them. To grow up between worlds is to become fluent in translation, the language of noticing.
The artists in this exhibition know this well. They have made it their own, ingrained in their medium and their story.
Anaïs Bouchatta