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Collectif: collective. Defar: to create.
Curating immersive creative experiences across artists of all trades and media.
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•~ A very special thank you from the curators
We are extremely grateful for the overwhelming amount of support Adrar Inu has had and want to thank each and every one of you that came and supported us and all the artists. We especially want to thank all the artists for entrusting us with their work and all the photographers that came out and documented such a meaningful day for the Collective. Adrar Inu will be up until August 30th so for those who hadn’t gotten the chance to make it out for the opening ceremony we strongly encourage you all to check out the gallery whenever you’re in town!
•Tanemmirt tameqqrant •

Photographers of the evening: @kojotakesphotos @ahmed_.elshaar @tiyyahsmuse @awas_kahmera @amirah_ib @palimpsestart @k3ba1234 by @collectifdefar

As we near the end of Adrar Inu, join us for the exhibition’s closing celebration @201at105 .

Over the past weeks, Adrar Inu has brought together the work of emerging women artists of the diaspora, creating a space for stories, perspectives, and experiences to meet.

Come spend one last afternoon with the exhibition, connect with the artists and community, and experience the work before the show comes down !!

August 30th · 12–7 PM
201@105 Gallery · 105 MULBERRY ST. NY. 10013
Pieces available for sale + auction

See you soon! 🤍🩶

#AdrarInu #womenart #201at105 #NYCArt #NYCExhibition by @collectifdefar

UPCOMING SHOW: ADRAR INU translates to ‘My Mountains’ in Tamazight. It is the title and the point of departure for this group exhibition at 201@105 Gallery.

Artist Reception: JULY 11, 6-9:30

The phrase, ‘I left my mountains’ carries a deeply personal significance, rooted in my family’s history. ‘Adrar Inu’, the song by the late Idir, a legendary Algerian Kabyle singer songwriter resonates with my mother, who is from the mountainside.

There is a voice that travels everywhere with me, memories left behind where I was born in Algeria and later emigrating to America with my parents. Here I share my language with only a few. continually reshaping my identity. I think of an onion plant that keeps getting cut. Each time, something new pushes through, in spite of the cutting. That root continues to grow.

This exhibition, that I guest curated, is about that kind of resilience and the particular joy of working alongside others, who came here like we all did, sharing that sense of struggle, emigrating. The works presented here by 8 other emerging women artists are evidence of minds at work and of stories that find mediums that ground them. To move and grow between worlds is to become fluent in translation, a language of noticing. The artists gathered here have each made that journey, across oceans, across languages and across disciplines and have made it their own.

Adrar Inu is guest curated by Anaïs Bouchatta, a 2026 graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology.

Each week, 201@105 will highlight one of the participating artists: HANA IBRAHIM

“Hana Ibrahim is an Egyptian fashion designer and multidisciplinary creative born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She recently graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design, concentrating in Knitwear Design. Working across fashion, textiles, and photography, her practice is rooted in personal storytelling and explores the relationship between culture, memory, and identity.”

Swipe for the rest of her statement in the next slide.

Each week, 201@105 will highlight one of the participating artists:

HANA IBRAHIM
Hana Ibrahim is an Egyptian fashion designer and multidisciplinary cre by @collectifdefar

NEWSLETTER, TODAY IS OUR OPENING DAY!
ADRAR INU — “My Mountains” in Tamazight.
COVER PHOTO CREDIT: AMIRAH IBRAHIM @amirah_ib , @byamirahibrahim

Join us tonight, July 11 : from 6:00–9:30 PM as we celebrate our second exhibition as Collectif Defar.

Adrar Inu explores movement, memory, and belonging through the work of nine artists whose practices reflect journeys across places, cultures, and generations.

If you’re planning to bring a larger group, children, individuals with accommodations, and folks who would like to avoid crowds to come in from 12pm-5pm. We highly recommend any of these parties to come earlier !

Come experience the work in person, share a conversation, sip and munch, and celebrate with us. by @collectifdefar

ADRAR INU: The Recap pt. 2 by @collectifdefar

ADRAR INU: The Recap pt 1.
📸 : @kojotakesphotos & @awas_kahmera by @collectifdefar

HANA IBRAHIM , Featured on the front of our exhibition’s postcard. Take a look back in case you missed her work in our past exhibition, Adrar Inu.

Hana Ibrahim is an Egyptian-born, NYC-based fashion designer and multidisciplinary creative. She uses photography as part of her design process, capturing images that build visual landscapes for her collections and creative practice.

This selection of photographs were taken throughout Hana’s hometown of El Hussein, Cairo, in the places she returns to most often. The Images look closely at the everyday details of Egyptian life that easily go unnoticed: familiar spaces, textures, objects, architecture, people, and ordinary moments.
Through a perspective shaped by distance and personal connection, Hana finds inspiration in these familiar surroundings and the details within them that might otherwise be overlooked. The photographs became a form of visual storytelling and textile research, informing her thesis collection, I Am from Hussein and Hussein Is from Me, while documenting the place that shaped her early life. by @collectifdefar

𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘨 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦 , our first exhibition with HARAZ × COLLECTIF DEFAR, seen through a digital eye. #TBTtoNOV

Thank you to everyone who joined us, artists and friends, @hrzhoboken for making it possible and to @nabiha.khannn , @ohhhhsee and @sabah.naveed for documenting the night.

We hope to see you this weekend at our next exhibition! Join us on July 11 from 6–9:30 PM at 201@105 Gallery. 🤍 by @collectifdefar

*CLOSED* CALL — NYC GROUP EXHIBITION @ 201@105

Collectif Defar is excited to announce our second group exhibition in New York at 201@105, following our first successful group show featuring film, photography, and mixed media work.

We are looking for talents of emerging artists of African descent or with connections to the African diaspora, working across all medium.

There are no submission or exhibition fees.

Artwork drop-off will take place on Thursday, July 2. We ask artists to be available during this period for coordination and install if needed. The exhibition opening will take place sometime between July 9–16 (exact date TB), so we ask artists to keep that week free.

The exhibition will run until August 30, with de-installation taking place August 31–September 1.

If you’re interested in participating, please send through your work or portfolio Via direct messages. Excited to see everyone’s work. Your work deserves wall space. #collectif #defar by @collectifdefar

Meet the faces behind the Collective! Collectif Defar is a combination of French & Wolof a nod to both Awa’s Gambian & Senegalese identity and my Algerian heritage. Defar means to create in wolof and Awa and I aim to do just that, create.

We are both so excited to share and create more to come, this page aims to be more than a couple insta posts and flyers, we want to build a community and a space for all lovers of art.

Get to know a little bit more about us as curators and our own individual journeys as artists & stay tuned for an upcoming post today regarding our next show! by @collectifdefar

Meet the faces behind the Collective! Collectif Defar is a combination of French & Wolof a nod to both Anais’s Algerian heritage and My Gambian & Senegalese identity. Defar means to create in wolof and Anais and I am to do just that, create.
We are so excited to share on this space, This page aims to be more than a couple insta posts and flyers, we want to build a community and a space for all lovers of art! Get to know a little bit more about us as curators and our own individual journeys as artists !!
Stay tuned for an upcoming post today regarding our next show! by @collectifdefar

We’re pleased to share the artist list for Beneath the Fig Tree, the first gathering of Collectif Defar, hosted by Haraz Coffee House. Join us for two evenings of performance, sound, and a shared creative space shaped by artists of all trades.

𖧧 𝒪𝓊𝓇 𝐹𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈:
Anna Tolmanov
Adrian Oakley
Lael Vargas
Fatima Khan
Isabelle Villanueva
Ksenia Dontsova
Fatima Sadouki
Sara Gaber
Belal Eltemsah
Adrian Nswosu
Tasneem Mansuri
Aliya Laliwala
Awa MM Kah
Anaïs Bouchatta

There will also be a limited-edition treat by Collectif Defar x Haraz only available during the event, so be sure to stop by, sip, and enjoy. by @collectifdefar