2022-ongoingTHE dada COLLECTION
Hala Schoukair Slow Consolation Series, 2026, Acrylic on canvas, 174.5 x 176 cm
Javed Akhtar, The Subconscious Realm in the Mind II, 2026, Oil on linen, 167 × 213 cm
Katherine Bradford Swim Team at Sea, 2024 Acrylic on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm, Beirut.
Alexandra Metcalf, You moved it? (TRACK B), 2026, Oil and ebru on linen, 120 x 135 cm, Paris.
Nicky Nodjoumi, Caught in the Game, 2011, Oil on canvas, 182.8 x 127 cm, Beirut.
David Balliano, Untitled, 2015, Mixed media on wood panel, 60.9 x 50.8 cm, Paris.
Samia Halaby, Black Column, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 54,5 × 61 cm, Beirut.
Nadia Ayari, Slope, 2023, Oil on linen, 89 x 89 cm, Beirut.
Ekene Stanley Emecheta, Day, 2022 Oil on canvas, 125.5 x 96 cm, Beirut.
Ekene Stanley Emecheta, Night, 2022 Oil on canvas, 125.5 x 96 cm, Beirut.
The Dada Collection explores instability as a central condition of contemporary painting, bringing together artists who examine how images fracture, shift, and resist resolution. In Caught in the Game, Nicky Nodjoumi presents figures caught in moments of tension, where narrative and structure feel deliberately unsettled.
This sense of instability extends through the measured repetitions of David Balliano and the rhythmic abstractions of Samia Halaby, where order and disruption coexist. In contrast, Nadia Ayari approaches her floral forms through ambiguity and gesture, allowing flow and texture to mediate her messages.
Together, the collection does not present one image, but a set of conditions defined by tension, movement, and continual transformation.