Alyazia Al Nahyan is a visual artist based in Dubai, UAE. Her practice explores landscapes as repositories for memory and material culture. Al Nahyan’s work explores an intimate, process-driven collaboration with the natural world.

Working closely with naturally foraged materials—plants, rusted metals, soil, and herbs, she translates them into pigments, stains, and textures that speak to their origin. Drawing from the feel of naturally dyed fabrics, she approaches material as both subject and collaborator. Nature plays an active role in the outcome: stains, wrinkles, and environmental traces on raw fabric are not corrected but embraced, reimagined as echoes of place and passage.

Through slow, process-based methods, she investigates the tension between permanence and ephemerality. The compositions in her work often take shape through an intuitive response to site explorations and natural fabric dyeing, where collected materials guide the language of each work. These abstract forms resemble aerial views, sediment layers, or ecological shifts—suggesting landscapes seen from both above and within.

During her residency, Al Nahyan has expanded her practice, to deepen her relationship with the natural environment by experimenting with creating novel natural pigment dyes and incorporating representations of local flora and fauna in her work in the pursuit of a subtle balance between figuration and abstraction.