Along the Way

Mapping Journeys Through Space, Memory, and Experience. 

Movement exceeds the idea of physical relocation. It unfolds across time, along roads and coastlines, through skies, screens, and shared spaces, as a way of knowing that engages both mind and body. It is not solitary. It takes shape through the ties that bind individuals to one another, and through the circulation of experience by which understanding is formed, carried, and transformed. 

Drawing on the legacy of journeys such as those of Ibn Battuta, Along the Way brings together over 34 artists and 69 artworks and objects under the premise that movement is both physical and intellectual, at once outward and inward. Travel, in this sense, holds a spiritual resonance, a passage through which the self is unsettled and remade and each threshold offers the possibility of renewal. The selected works span a multitude of forms, from painting, photography, and sculpture to digital practices and archival materials, including rare manuscripts. Across them, movement unfolds through landscapes, language, memory, cosmology, bodies in transition and histories in motion. Mapping emerges here as an open and interpretive act, shaped by lived experience rather than fixed coordinates. 

At its core, this exhibition asks what it means to know through movement. The works approach cartography as both subject and method, loosening its structures into shifting forms. Routes fold back on themselves, and space is reimagined through what can be understood as affective cartography—maps that represent subjective human experiences and emotional life. This extends into poetic cartography, based on the mythical, affective, and topological as opposed to a geometric concept of space, where movement becomes an expressive act. 

The exhibition arranges the works as a series of crossings rather than a linear progression, encouraging viewers to pause and reorient themselves in relation to the works and to each other. In doing so, Along the Way performs the idea it proposes: movement as a condition of knowing. Each gesture, image, and archival fragment forms a coordinate in an expanding map of perception, where moving through space becomes an act of learning, and where every outward journey turns inward toward recognition and understanding. 

Participating Artists 

1. Abduladeem Shali   
2. Abdulla Almuharraqi 
3. Anju Dodiya 
4. Anuar Khalifi    
5. Asmaa Aljohani 
6. Asma Bahmim   
7. Basmah Felemban 
8. Dia al-Azzawi   
9. Fahad Hawari    
10. Filwa Nazer   
11. Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad 
12. Gulammohammed Sheikh   
13. Hassan Almeer  
14. Hatem Al-Ahmad  
15. Hayfa Algwaiz   
16. Houda Terjuman  
17. Jaffar Aloraibi 
18. Laurent Mareschal   
19. Madhawi AlGwaiz   
20. Manal AlDowayan 
21. Manuscripts & Objects 
22. Marwa AlMugait   
23. Marwan Rechmaoui    
24. Moath Alofi 
25. Mohamed Amine Hamouda  
26. Mohammad Siam  
27. Mona Saudi   
28. Rabia Akhtar  
29. Reem Al Faisal  
30. Sara Alabdali   
31. Sara Almutlaq   
32. Safeya Binzagr 
33. Tewodros Hagos 
34. Zahiyah Alraddadi   
35. Ziad Dalloul