NIKA Project Space serves as a platform for artistic discourse and experimentation and champions the work of female artists and curators.

At the Asia Now, NIKA Project Space will present the solo project ‘Sour Things: the Pantry’ by artist Palestinian, Lisbon-based artist Mirna Bamieh. This project was first exhibited at Noordbrabants Museum in Netherlands as part of a group exhibition titled ‘Imagine Home.’ For the Asia Now art fair, the gallery booth will be curated by the artist herself specifically based on this project.

In Sour Things: The Pantry, the artist zooms in on the idea of the pantry space of fermentation and preservation. How does the pantry of the uprooted and displaced looks like? How would preservation practices look when you are in a no-place, residing in liminality and in-betweenness. How would your pantry space feel like, when the walls have one foot in construction, and the other in demolition? What would it say?To practice fermentation you need to inhabit a place, but preservation can be practiced anywhere. Salt is hope, Salt is future time, that of a gathering when opening a jar of ferment to share is possible again.