Third Space
Sans titre
For Asia Now 2026, Sans titre presents two monumental textile paintings by Palestinian artist Aysha E Arar (b. 1993), “A Worm in Love” and “He was everywhere in my DNA,” suspended in the entrance hall of the Monnaie de Paris.
Moving freely between painting, poetry, music and storytelling, E Arar creates a deeply personal universe inhabited by hybrid creatures, imaginary beings, and bodies that resist fixed identities. Drawing from Palestinian folklore, dreams, and her own lived experience, her practice blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, the human and the nonhuman, the intimate and the collective.
Across both paintings, red emerges as a powerful visual thread. At once suggestive of blood, love, desire, and violence, it flows through entangled bodies and organic forms, expressing the fragile yet inseparable relationship between vulnerability and strength. Painted directly onto loose, unstretched fabrics, these works evoke veils, skins, shrouds, or flags.
Suspended within the monumental architecture of the Monnaie de Paris, these fragile, floating surfaces open onto alternative worlds, offering a space for imagination and resistance against oppression and displacement, while affirming the enduring possibilities of love and freedom.
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Eloi Boucher Lagrange
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Exhibited artists
Aysha E Arar
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.
Her practice spans multiple disciplines, including painting, video, performance, and poetry. Arar develops a form of resistance through art, using fiction and poetry to engage with the conditions of Palestinian existence, its history and its future. Through spontaneous forms, she creates a body of work that is both deeply inhabited and political. As a painter, she works on paper, canvas, and directly on walls, moving fluidly between abstraction and figuration, populating her compositions with creatures, animals, and beings inspired by Palestinian legends.
Aysha E Arar will have her second solo show at Sans titre in October 2026. 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).
In the coming months, the artist will participate in group exhibitions at MO.CO., Montpellier; Frac- Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limoges and Galerias Municipais de Arte, Lisbon.
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); Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv (2016); 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).
Exhibited works
Aysha E Arar
He was everywhere even in my DNA
2018
Acrylic on fabric
317 x 173 cm
Aysha E Arar
A Worm in Love
2018
Spray paint on fabric
502 x 175 cm
