First light, Liwa
Aisha Darwish
Mirath keeps the record of a new generation of Gulf artists.
Emirati in origin and ambition. Each week, one work enters the record. Each month, three essays give the scene its words. The record grows; the world catches up.
A new world, kept on record.
Art of the week
Tide line, evening
Reem Al-Mazrouei
- Medium
- Oil on linen
- Dimensions
- 150 × 120 cm
- Place
- Abu Dhabi
- Year
- 2025
The first work to enter the record, and a statement of how Mirath reads them: closely, and without hurry.
See the work
From the essays
All essays-
18 June 2026
The hour the land is most itself
First light is not a mood. It is the hour the Gulf is least explained, and a generation keeps returning to it.
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4 June 2026
The record is not an archive
An archive stores what is finished. A record keeps what is still happening. The difference decides everything about how the work is held.
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21 May 2026
On the wall, and the weather
To hang a painting straight, untreated, and trust the room is a position, not an absence of one.
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The Record, Volume One
