Katya Muromtseva's grandiose "multilingual" watercolors

The exhibition's title, Over the Slopes of Speech, is taken from a line in the poem No More And No Less written by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. A poem that tells the story of the importance of women and their refusal to accept the roles imposed on them by society. Words that are the underlying theme of the paintings of the New York artist Katya Muromtseva. Works that foreground individuals who are often rendered invisible but who are undeniably present in society, monumental watercolor triptychs that connect to the multiple narratives and stories of immigrant women. Muromtseva met women who had moved to the UAE from countries including Ukraine, Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan and Russia and chose immigration as a way to find comfort in the shared experience. Ambitious in scale for the medium of watercolor, through these works the artist explores the overlap between documented realities and artistic imagination, figuration and abstraction.