Soraya Abu Naba'a Explores Flowers as Knowledge Vessels at Artbooth Gallery

Artbooth Gallery presents "Encoded in Petals," a solo exhibition by Soraya Abu Naba'a featuring painting, textile installation, drawing, sculpture, and spatial intervention. Developed over several years, the show engages with nature, memory, women's labor, and ancestral knowledge. Flowers serve as vessels for histories of care and resilience. Abu Naba'a's work draws from her lived experience across the Caribbean, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, approaching identity through movement and sensory memory. Her visual language blends abstraction, traditional craft, digital aesthetics, and ecological awareness. The exhibition employs floriography—the historical language of flowers—to convey emotion and ecological awareness. Living in Florida, where climate change is palpable, she uses regional flora as metaphors for adaptation and persistence. Landscape is treated as witness, with petals and stems abstracted into linear structures recalling rivers and topographies. Informed by deep ecology, the work emphasizes interdependence. The exhibition includes the work "A rose is not just a rose" (2024, gesso and charcoal on linen, 139.7 x 226 cm).