Montague Contemporary is pleased to present a two-artist booth featuring Dina Nur Satti and Miska Mohmmed at NADA New York 2026. Conceived as a tightly composed, exhibition-like presentation, the booth brings together ceramics and painting through a shared conceptual framework grounded in
transformation, material memory, and the enduring presence of the Nile as a site of circulation and storytelling.
Working across distinct mediums, both artists engage material as a carrier of time. Satti’s ceramic vessels and sculptural forms draw on processes of pressing, firing, and suspension to produce objects that suggest
offerings, reliquaries, and botanical fragments—forms that hold both physical and metaphysical weight.
Mohmmed’s paintings, by contrast, operate through layered fields of color and mark, where surface becomes an atmospheric register of movement, accumulation, and erasure.
The Nile functions here not as symbol but as structure—an underlying logic of sedimentation and flow that shapes how each artist approaches material and surface. Clay, pigment, water, and mineral converge across the booth, creating a dialogue that moves between density and lightness, immersion and encounter. Installed together, the works establish a spatial rhythm: Mohmmed’s canvases generate a luminous horizon, while Satti’s sculptural interventions anchor the space through moments of stillness and tactility.
Recent institutional acquisitions of Satti’s work by the Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Saint Louis Art Museum reflect growing engagement with her practice, while Mohmmed’s international exhibition
history continues to expand across Africa, Europe, and the United States.
