Aysha E Arar

Sans titre is pleased to present Shahrazad / شهرزاد, Aysha E Arar’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Taking its title from the legendary storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights, the exhibition considers storytelling as a space of survival, freedom and transformation. Shahrazad, who tells stories night after night in order to remain alive, becomes a point of departure rather than a character to be illustrated, a figure through which E Arar continues her exploration of the power of imagination and of the voice.

Drawing from Palestinian tales and legends, personal memories and lived experience, E Arar creates a world where reality and fiction continually overlap. Human bodies mingle with birds, horses and imaginary creatures, identities remain fluid, and love, fear, violence and tenderness coexist. Through painting, poetry and storytelling, Shahrazad / شهرزاد imagines another space, one in which telling a story can itself become an act of freedom.

Aysha E Arar is a Palestinian artist born in 1993. She received her BFA with honors from the HaMidrasha Faculty of Arts - Beit Berl College in 2018.

Previous solo exhibitions include Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (2026); CC Strombeek, Grimbergen (2025); Château de Rochechouart – Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne (2025), Sans titre, Paris (2024), Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Paris & Brussels (2024 & 2023), ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul (2024), Beit HaGefen, Haifa (2023), Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv (2022), and Givat Haviva Art Gallery (2021).

Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples (2026); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2025); Kunsthaus Baselland, Münchenstein (2024); MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier (2024); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2024); Sans titre, Paris (2024, 2022 & 2021); Tageldimde / Middelgate, Geel (2023); Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv (2022); Umm al-Fahm Gallery (2022); Alfred Institute for Art and Culture, Tel Aviv (2021); Kultur Forum Dresden e.V., Dresden (2021); Albertinum Museum, Dresden (2021); Artura Gallery, Kfar Monash (2021); Balkont Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019); Ethiopian Embassy, Tel Aviv (2017); Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv (2017); Excellence Project of the Jewish Festival, Krakow (2016).

Aysha E Arar’s works are featured in the collections of significant institutions and museums, including Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin (Paris, France); SMAK – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent, Belgium); Frac-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Limoges, France); Frac Corsica (Corte, Corsica) and Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne – Château de Rochechouart (Rochechouart, France).