Hands-on and Janet Rady Fine Art are pleased to present Where We Meet, a presentation of works by Neda Dana-Haeri and Shooq AlShawi.

Where We Meet brings together the works of Dana-Haeri and AlShawi, two artists whose practices unfold as meditations on breath, memory, and the unseen harmonies that shape human experience. Through layered abstraction, both artists create spaces of felt presence, each approaching it through different pathways - Dana-Haeri through atmospheric and tonal reflection, AlShawi through embodied gesture and continuity.

For both artists layering is not merely material but metaphysical. It is the accumulation of time, the sediment of story, the rhythm of breath. Their works exist in a space between stillness and movement, existence and nonexistence, memory and immediacy. Each piece functions as a living form: an encounter that bridges theory and practice, the visible and the felt.

A convergence of gestural abstraction and cultural inheritance shapes this dialogue. AlShawi’s work embodies legacy and bodily presence, while Dana-Haeri’s atmospheric surfaces reflect enduring resonance. Neither seeks representation; instead, they invite surrender to complexity and calm, to a conversation that unfolds within the viewer. Both are acts of courage: to sit with the self, and to invite the self to sit.

It is precisely in this shared openness that Where We Meet finds its meaning.