Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 60 x 80 cm
Year: 2025
Yalla — a word that echoes across the Middle East — means “let’s go”, “come on”, or “move forward”. It carries both urgency and warmth, a blend of encouragement and rhythm that perfectly matches the energy of Dubai.
In this piece, Hakim Idriss fuses calligraphy with abstraction, letting the Arabic script emerge through dynamic layers of turquoise, orange, and deep blue. The brushstrokes suggest both speed and flow, giving movement to the word itself.
Here, language becomes motion, and color becomes sound — an invitation to go forward, together.
