The article “MENART Fair 2024: Tribute to Women Artists” by Art Breath highlights the 2024 edition of MENART Fair 2024 in Paris, which focused on celebrating and amplifying the voices of women artists from the Middle East and North Africa and its diaspora. The article reflects on the continued underrepresentation of Arab women artists in the international art market and positions the fair as an important platform for visibility, dialogue, and cultural exchange.
Among the featured artists presented by Firetti Contemporary were Sawsan Al Bahar, Annie Kurkdjian, and Negin Fallah. Sawsan Al Bahar’s work Jalabiya (2022) explored themes of memory, identity, and femininity through delicate mark-making and layered materials. Annie Kurkdjian’s large-scale mixed media work reflected her emotionally driven practice, centered on gesture, movement, and human presence. Negin Fallah’s Rudabeh of Tomorrow (2021) drew from mythology and contemporary womanhood, reimagining feminine narratives through painting.
The article ultimately frames the fair as a celebration of the richness, diversity, and critical importance of women’s artistic practices across the MENA region, emphasizing how these artists engage with questions of identity, history, politics, and lived experience through deeply personal visual languages.
