Onespace presents Paper Echoes, a solo exhibition by Elysha Rei in the Main Gallery, exploring memory, identity and belonging through the delicate and versatile medium of paper.
Returning to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, thirty-eight years after being born in Tabuk, Rei revisits a landscape previously known to her through photographs, documents, family stories and archival footage.
Through paper cutting, photography, video, scent and sound, the exhibition explores memory, inheritance and the connections between people and place. It asks how recognition can exist beyond conscious memory and how fragments of experience reverberate across generations.
Paper becomes both material and metaphor: a witness to lives recorded through passports, photographs, birth certificates and archives. Shaped by removal, preservation and chance encounters, the works consider what remains when memory is incomplete and how inherited fragments can become part of a new, lived archive.
Opening Event: Thursday 22 October 2026, 6:30–8pm. Artist talk: 5:30–6:15pm. RSVP via Humanitix.
Additional Event: Elysha Rei paper-cutting workshop, Saturday 14 November 2026. Further information to come.
Image: Elysha Rei, Inherited Horizon III, 2026. Individual sets of photo montages of archival photos taken by artists parents in 1986, printed as Giclee print on Hahnemühle cotton rag paper. Installation dimensions vary. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.
