2026 · Oil on canvas, framed

Staircase, Kaifan

Dalal Al-Obaidi

Price on request

83.7 cm × 103.7 cm

Presented by

Taymour Grahne Projects

Alserkal Avenue · Dubai

About the work

Named after a residential neighbourhood of Kuwait City, Staircase, Kaifan depicts a domestic threshold charged with memory. Painted for Frogs, Jazz & Blisters, her debut solo exhibition, the work belongs to a body of paintings about living between London and Kuwait, or 'being two Dalals'. The stairwell becomes a space of transition between public and private life, and between the artist's two homes.

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The 1989 film gave Petra a façade and invented everything behind it. The real story is in the water systems, the aniconic sculpture, the painter who framed your photograph in 1839 and the families moved out so the world could come in.

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