Artist Statement
Aya Gamil's practice explores the body as a site of accumulation, where memory, nature, and lived experience intertwine and continuously reshape one another. Working primarily through painting, she investigates how experiences persist within the body as traces that surface, dissolve, and reconfigure through gesture and form.
In her paintings, the body often merges with elements of nature-plants, organic forms, and shifting landscapes-creating spaces where the boundaries between body, memory, and environment remain fluid.
Through layered surfaces and shifting forms, images appear, fade, and re-emerge through cycles of accumulation and transformation.
Rather than reconstructing the past, Gamil's work traces the lingering presence of experience within the body and the spaces it inhabits.
In her paintings, the body often merges with elements of nature-plants, organic forms, and shifting landscapes-creating spaces where the boundaries between body, memory, and environment remain fluid.
Through layered surfaces and shifting forms, images appear, fade, and re-emerge through cycles of accumulation and transformation.
Rather than reconstructing the past, Gamil's work traces the lingering presence of experience within the body and the spaces it inhabits.
For Gamil, painting does not seek to reconstruct what occurred; it traces what persists.
2025
2024
2023
2023
2022
Illustrations