A Path Carved by My Returning – Art Exhibition by Ilham Alshahab

In A Path Carved By My Returning, Ilham Alshahab invites viewers to slow down and reconsider the act of looking, how repeated encounters with the familiar and mundane can shift in perception, allowing what was once passed by to come into view through time and attention.

Drawing from her experience of returning and repeating her cycling route in her neighbourhood, the work traces her shift from restlessness to attention. Small moments that once lingered in the edges of her vision begin to take precedence, moving from the periphery to the centre.

A path is slowly carved through the accumulation of her visits to the periphery. Where looking again and again allows the ordinary to unfold into something expansive.

This body of work will be on display at The Dia Space from 1 May 2026 till 31 July 2026.