Salmah Almansoori reflected on her exhibition Who I Become as an exploration of identity, memory, and personal transformation shaped by time, place, and lived experience. Rooted in her upbringing in Ghayathi, the exhibition examined how environments absorb emotional traces and how objects, materials, and landscapes become carriers of both personal and collective histories.
Through painting, handmade paper, found materials, photography, and installation, Almansoori explored the shifting relationship between preservation and change, often working with fragile or reclaimed surfaces that mirrored the instability of memory itself. Her practice focused on the idea that identity is not fixed, but continuously reconstructed through experience, displacement, growth, and reflection.
The exhibition highlighted her ongoing interest in archiving overlooked narratives and preserving emotional connections to place within the rapidly changing landscape of the UAE. Across the works, moments of fragmentation, erosion, and reconstruction became symbolic of both vulnerability and resilience, positioning memory as something fluid, layered, and deeply tied to materiality and environment.
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