H’ART Museum presents Mounira Al Solh’s (b. 1978) solo exhibition “Nami Nami Noooom, Yalla Tnaaam” through May 15. Lebanese contemporary artist Al Solh is the winner of the 11th ABN AMRO Art Prize, as part of which she is presenting this exhibition.

Al Solh works between the Netherlands and Lebanon and utilizes a wide range of media, including textiles, video, language, music, installation, painting, performance, and magazine publishing. Her work visually delivers personal stories about herself, her family, her acquaintances, political refugees, and migration, and she often speaks about women in the Arab world.

In this exhibition, Al Solh draws on memories of her childhood in civil war-ravaged Lebanon. On bombing nights, her mother would allow Al Solh to punch holes in pajamas and sew them back together again and again to keep her daughter calm. In this exhibition, Al Solh repeated this meditative act with women in the Netherlands and Lebanon, and the textile works into an installation based on it. The title of the exhibition, “Nami Nami Noooom, Yalla Tnaaam,” is taken from an Arabic lullaby.