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Hadil Moufti
Hadil Moufti is a visual artist whose practice is deeply rooted in the exploration of the interrelations among identity, memory, and belonging. Her work unfolds through collage, formmaking, and repetition. A graduate of the prestigious Parsons School of Design in Paris, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Moufti brings to contemporary art a distinctive perspective shaped by both rigorous academic study and intuitive introspection. Moufti’s work has received international recognition and is held in major collections, including the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah and Dubai Collection.
Moufti’s artistic inquiry is grounded in the belief that humanity is at once unified and fragmented, emerging from a single origin yet scattered across cultures and histories. This observation propels her to construct interior, phantasmagorical worlds: utopian spaces where differences dissolve into rhythm and connection. Her compositions reimagine childhood tales, biblical narratives, and architectural fragments drawn from diverse cultural and historical contexts, creating a visual language that reflects the universality of human experience.
Through intricate hand-cut collages and serial patterns, she transforms everyday life objects into visual poetry: family keepsakes, photographs, domestic objects, and familiar creatures such as moths, sheep, and beetles.
Moufti’s artistic inquiry is grounded in the belief that humanity is at once unified and fragmented, emerging from a single origin yet scattered across cultures and histories. This observation propels her to construct interior, phantasmagorical worlds: utopian spaces where differences dissolve into rhythm and connection. Her compositions reimagine childhood tales, biblical narratives, and architectural fragments drawn from diverse cultural and historical contexts, creating a visual language that reflects the universality of human experience.
Through intricate hand-cut collages and serial patterns, she transforms everyday life objects into visual poetry: family keepsakes, photographs, domestic objects, and familiar creatures such as moths, sheep, and beetles.
The mundane becomes precious, reordered into patterns of harmony and multiplicity. Her technique of cutting and assembling images is both meditative and methodical, like a ritual act where a rhythmic refrain is repeated with subtle variations in tone and melody. She builds multiple iterations within a single series, each evolving toward an eventual crescendo, or what Moufti calls a ‘metamorph’ – the culmination of her study on the evolution of forms.
Her compositions often recall musical structures which are steady, accumulative, and transformative akin to the ostinato of Ravel’s Boléro. The power of repetition to generate rhythm, pattern, and emotional resonance lies at the core of her work. ‘I love listening to remixes of the same song,’ she notes. ‘It’s a bit like my interest in serialism, one version is never enough. I need the variations.’
Moufti’s practice is consciously free of political or social agendas.It resists national identity and instead inhabits a universal space of shared symbols, where myth, literature, and spirituality intertwine. Her exploration of the life of forms examines how images live, transform, and repeat through time, echoing the persistence of collective memory.
An active member of 8th Street Studios, one of the UAE’s leading art platforms, Moufti continues to contribute to the region’s vibrant cultural landscape, expanding the boundaries of contemporary art through her provocatively delicate compositions. In her practice, patterns of repetition are not decoration but meaning: a rhythm through which memory becomes form, and form becomes a bridge between the personal and the universal.
Exhibitions2025
Her compositions often recall musical structures which are steady, accumulative, and transformative akin to the ostinato of Ravel’s Boléro. The power of repetition to generate rhythm, pattern, and emotional resonance lies at the core of her work. ‘I love listening to remixes of the same song,’ she notes. ‘It’s a bit like my interest in serialism, one version is never enough. I need the variations.’
Moufti’s practice is consciously free of political or social agendas.It resists national identity and instead inhabits a universal space of shared symbols, where myth, literature, and spirituality intertwine. Her exploration of the life of forms examines how images live, transform, and repeat through time, echoing the persistence of collective memory.
An active member of 8th Street Studios, one of the UAE’s leading art platforms, Moufti continues to contribute to the region’s vibrant cultural landscape, expanding the boundaries of contemporary art through her provocatively delicate compositions. In her practice, patterns of repetition are not decoration but meaning: a rhythm through which memory becomes form, and form becomes a bridge between the personal and the universal.
Exhibitions2025
- Amina Illuminati — Group Show, Rarares Gallery, Dubai, UAE
- Canvas for Change: A Sustainable Future — Group Show, Christie’s Middle East, Dubai, UAE
- Commission from All Saints Middle East, Dubai, UAE
- Contemplation Effect — Group Show, Hafez Gallery, H19 JAX District, Riyadh, KSA
- Made in Tashkeel — Group Show, Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE
- Made in Tashkeel — Group Show, Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE
- Abu Dhabi Art Fair — Group Show Booth, Hafez Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Shara Art Fair, Hafez Gallery, Jeddah, KSA
- Plastic — Group Show, Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE
- MNWR — Group Show, Hafez Gallery, Madina Art Center, Al Hadiqah, KSA
- Galleries at MAS, Hafez Gallery, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Shara Art Fair, Hafez Gallery, Jeddah, KSA
- Daftar Asfar, UAE Now, Art Dubai Contemporary Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
- Made in Tashkeel — Group Show, Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE
- Samt Volume 2: Sonorous Symmetry — Digital Group Exhibition, Samt, samt.co
- Daftar Asfar — A traveling sketchbook collective built on collaboration, Middle East
- Made in Tashkeel — Group Show, Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE
- RCA Secret Dubai, Art Dubai Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
- Art in Secret — Group Show, Showcase Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
- Group Show, Showcase Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
- Open Studio, Tashkeel, Al Fahidi, Sikka Art Fair, part of Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
- Recent Acquisitions — Group Show, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
- Hadil Moufti — Solo Show, McKinsey Art Initiative, DIFC, Dubai, UAE
- Hadil Moufti — Solo Show, Showcase Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
- Hadil Moufti: Horizons — Solo Show, Create Sofa Studio, The Courtyard, Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE
- Open Studio, Tashkeel, Al Fahidi, Sikka Art Fair, part of Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
- Broken — Group Show, The Tricycle Theatre, London, UK
- Open Studio, part of ARTWEST Artists’ Cooperative — Group Show, London, UK
- Open Studio, part of ARTWEST Artists’ Cooperative — Group Show, London, UK
- Poetry in Colour — Solo Show, Ridha Art Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Graduate Exhibition — Group Show, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
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