Every Morning, A Time

Participating artists:

Etel Adnan, Hayfa Algwaiz, Inji Efflatoun, Emilia Estrada, Nour Jaouda, Lamia Joreige, Yasmine El Meleegy, Filwa Nazer, Zayn Qahtani, Laila Tara H

Curated by Amina Diab

April 5 - May 6, 2025

1 Place du Louvre, 75001 Paris

(Moretti Fine Art)

Tuesday - Saturday : 11am - 7pm

Press Release (pdf)

Every Morning, A Time is a group exhibition at Hatch Gallery (Paris) curated by Amina Diab, that brings together ten artists –Etel Adnan, Hayfa Algwaiz, Inji Efflatoun, Emilia Estrada, Nour Jaouda, Lamia Joreige, Yasmine El Meleegy, Filwa Nazer, Zayn Qahtani and Laila Tara H– spanning different generations whose practices are shaped by acts of assembling and reassembling. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and textile, they engage with open-ended processes of fragmentation. Repetition and cyclical rhythms emerge as methods of inquiry, where memory, material, and history are continuously reconfigured through the act of making.

Etel Adnan’s painted and written forms extend across disciplines, reflecting an insistence on mark-making as an act of presence. Hayfa AlGwaiz’s sculptural forms evoke layers of presence and absence, concealing and revealing what lies beneath. Inji Efflatoun anchors the exhibition historically, employing rhythmic expanses of white space as strategies of openness and renewal, transforming painting into a daily gesture of resistance. Emilia Estrada interrogates the nomenclature of the lunar surface as a mirror of colonial knowledge systems, reworking acts of naming as sites of erasure, memory, and speculative cosmology. Nour Jaouda works with cement, a material that holds and fixes, yet paradoxically remains fragile. Lamia Joreige interrogates history and memory through archives, images, and testimonies to uncover the omissions and ambiguities that shape historical narratives. Yasmine El Meleegy works with found materials, domestic objects, and architectural fragments to explore repair, memory, and overlooked histories. Filwa Nazer’s practice engages with veiling and unveiling, where layers of fabric obscure and reveal, resisting singular interpretations. Zayn Qahtani builds imagined ecologies offering speculative narratives about survival, spirituality, and belonging. Laila Tara H transforms individual fragments into an elaborate visual lexicon. 

Across generations, these artists navigate multiple geographies, moving between cities, languages, and cultural contexts. Their works are situated across Brazil, Egypt, France, India, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and the UK, and their practices unfold within nomadic life journeys. This continuous movement is both a reality and a methodology that shapes the artists’ ways of seeing and re-seeing, of breaking apart and rebuilding—an ongoing process through which their practices become a form of world-making. Together they employ different ways of documenting, mapping, and reclaiming space, to navigate and chart new cartographies. The works trace, stitch, draw and redraw lines, collect and reconfigure materials, embodying a process that reconfigures meaning over time. 

The artists operate in in-between spaces—between cultures, between past and present, between the tangible and the intangible, the seen and the unseen. Every Morning, A Time focuses on what they create and sustain in these spaces: the daily rituals of making, inherited techniques, and repeated gestures of care and resistance.

Courtesy Amina Diab