Recently on view: Rizq Art Initiative
Installation on view at Rizq Art Initiative as part of Scene/Seen – ‘Fragile Birth of Fire’ exhibition, 2025
Dedicated to the universally existential day that determines if anybody in the world actually cares about us. And so I wonder, how is a day dedicated to celebrating our birth and life possibly the heaviest day of the year?
Recently on view: RAK Fine Art Festival
Painting installation selected for Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival 2025; Comparing the folds and flows of a blanket to desert sand dunes, this work compares the perceptions of the desert in the east vs the west, and how these two seemingly ordinary objects – a blanket and desert sand dunes – similarly bring us comfort and escapism.
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I’m Melika, a multidisciplinary artist raised in Dubai.
My practice moves across painting and photography, informed by years of working across drawing, sculpture, animation, film, and other media. While my work spans multiple forms, I continue to return to the quiet intimacy of image-making as a way to explore moments of connection, transition, and emotional proximity.
Through fluid forms, folds of fabric, soft blankets, drips of paint, and gestures drawn from movement and poetry, I’m drawn to the in-between: those subtle, often overlooked moments that shape how we experience belonging, absence, and place. These fragments of the everyday become sites of reflection, carrying emotional weight beyond what is immediately visible.
The work invites stillness and attentiveness. It offers space to pause, to notice, understand, and to reconnect with ourselves, with others, and with the environments we move through…
