Adding a performative dimension to the fair, Saudi artist Ahaad Alamoudi will present a recurring activation titled Ghosts of Today and Tomorrow. Engaging with sound and light as vectors of memory and transmission, Alamoudi’s work explores perception, heritage, and the temporal friction between the contemporary and the ancestral punctuating the fair with moments of sensorial disruption and reflection.

Alserkal Advisory, a multidisciplinary cultural consultancy of alternative thinkers, researchers, and specialists with extensive global knowledge and networks in the arts and culture sector, present The Cut Line by Pascal Hachem (Lebanon), a performance centered on the idea of “growing memory,” revisiting the notion of community and exploring how memory is shaped through absence, rupture, and everyday objects.

Their participation includes a video screening of works by Subas Tamang (Nepal), whose practice explores caste, Indigenous identity, and memory through painting and installation — previously shown at the Kathmandu Triennale, Serendipity Arts Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto.

Presentation of Desire Moheb-Zandi’s new textile-based project, developed during a summer residency in Turkey. The work draws on Kilim weaving techniques and natural pigments, blending regenerative agriculture with ancestral Anatolian crafts from her native land. Curated by Victoire de Pourtalès.

A special performance for Asia NOW by Hiromi Tango (Japan), contemporary artist working predominantly with textiles in installation and performance art.