Sara Naim

Some installs from Rose Tinted @thethirdlinedxb 🥀 on until July 8th

My show 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 at @thethirdlinedxb is extended until May 31st! Skin 8, 9 & 10 2026 Oil on canvas Three panels, each 240 x 175 cm Overall dimension: 240 x 525 cm

Take a walk through ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ Sara Naim’s (@saranaim__ ) solo exhibition at The Third Line, marking the artist’s first public presentation of paintings exploring the notions of language and boundaries. The show is #OnView both at the gallery and online through a viewing room on the website. On view until 7 April 2026 📍The Third Line, Dubai, UAE Tap on the link in our bio for more information. –––––––––– #SaraNaim #TheThirdLine #AlserkalAvenue #ContemporaryArt

“In Gallery 2, Naim presents a video-based performance entitled Mother Practices Her Tongue. The camera frames Naim in a photographic portrait as she performs a series of vocal exercises, attempting to articulate and pronounce individual Arabic letters. The sounds repeat, stretch, and break apart in irregular rhythms. The title of the work reflects the strained diasporic relationship to one’s mother tongue, which was further exposed by the experience of becoming a mother. At the same time, the work points to a broader question about language itself. For Naim, words derive their meaning not from sound alone but from the systems that structure and organize them. By isolating letters and repeating them out of sequence, she disrupts this structure, reducing language to its most elemental components and exposing its symbolic framework.   The works point to the multitude of systems that construct and impose meaning, while revealing how it also operates as a shifting interface through which perception, identity and experience are continually negotiated.” Excerpt from an essay by @odessawarren_ for my current exhibition at @thethirdlinedxb

Sara Naim’s (@saranaim__ ) solo exhibition, ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ is now #OnView at the gallery until 7 April 2026. To those of us in our community who are seeking a breath amidst the current events in the region, we welcome you to join us at the gallery 🌷 For those of you who are unable to be here, we have created an online viewing room for you to explore the show from wherever you are. Please see the link in our bio. Installation photography by Ismail Noor (@ismailnoor ). –––––––––– #SaraNaim #TheThirdLine #AlserkalAvenue #ContemporaryArt

My exhibition at @thethirdlinedxb , which was meant to open tomorrow, has been postponed. I’m feeling a mix of emotions — selfishly sad not to be sharing a show I’ve worked so hard on, while also feeling the weight of what’s happening in the Middle East right now. My thoughts are with everyone who is truly suffering during this time. The paintings explore how inherited ideologies and images shape our often distorted understanding of the world. It feels strangely resonant in this moment, and I hope the show will open soon. Thank you to everyone at TTL for all the energy that’s gone into the show and for navigating such difficult circumstances x

𝗘𝗫𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗗 | Due to current events in the region, ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ the fourth solo exhibition by Sara Naim (@saranaim__ ) at The Third Line, has been postponed. Kindly follow our channels for further updates. During this time, our thoughts and prayers are with all those who are affected. We hope you and your loved ones remain safe. 📅 Exhibition dates to be announced 📍The Third Line, Dubai, UAE Tap on the link in our bio for more information. Image: Sara Naim, Skin 9, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 240 x 175 cm –––––––––– #SaraNaim #FromThePerspectiveOfLanguage #TheThirdLine #ContemporaryArt

𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦, my solo show of paintings and a video, opens on March 4th at @thethirdlinedxb , 7-10pm. Can’t wait to see you there! xx

Join us at Present Tense for an evening of food, music & poetry, to gather in love and solidarity with the Palestinian people. This gathering is part of a month of events of publicly grieving the ongoing genocide in Palestine and raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). On the night, we’ll share a Levantine supper prepared by Tarek Al-Shammaa, poetry from Syrian–Irish poet Sarah Terkaoui, and vinyl played by Faris Badwan @farisorisit (The Horrors), we will also hold an auction of a collaborative textile artwork developed at our weekly Grieving Circles throughout the month of October. When: Saturday 11th October Time: 19:00 - 22:00 Where: Present Tense 4 Ferntower Rd, London, N5 2JG Donations (tickets): £60 / £80 / £100 Book via programme page at presenttense.co.uk Link in Bio @___presenttense Thank you to organisers: @jc_x_jc @saranaim__ @catcrawfordia

@thethirdlinedxb celebrates 20 years! Excited to be part of the show “The Only Way Out is Through” with all the artists from the gallery, curated by @shumonbasar . If you’re in Dubai on Sept 18, it’s a must! Congrats TTL, it’s been a journey that I’m grateful to have gone on with you for most of that time. I’ll be showing Pallor, 140x100cm, C-type digital print, 2016 & Pink Curves, 120x57.5x90cm, C-type digital print, wood, plexiglass, 2020. Both works consider the skin as an elusive threshold, marking connection rather than separation.

A Chickpea / Hummus, Oil on canvas, 102x102cm

My practice is concerned with perception, often focusing on the perception of borders. Our innate understanding of connectedness is undermined by the social conditioning that reinforces division. I’m currently exploring how borders are protected, how they are patrolled, how these lines are transgressed, and how they govern the flow of movement of people and plants. How are positions of power shared between border patroller and transgressor? How does the military uniform play a role in this power play (does our projection validate power)? How does inside and outside boundary operate in relation to protection and exclusion? What are borders actually protecting, and how does transgression of flora parallel the transgression of people along borders? Arguably, boundaries emerge from duality, rather than from the fluidity inherent in polarity. So, how can we penetrate these lines, physically and non-physically? Reed, 120x25cm, Giclee Print, Mild Steel, Epoxy Resin, 2024.