There are truths that resist visibility, histories that whisper rather than declare, futures imagined through fragments, symbols, and dreams. Evidence of Things Not Seen brings together new works by Balekane Legoabe, Abdesslem Ayed, and Nada Baraka, whose practices embrace the speculative not as a genre, but as a mode of belief. Balekane Legoabe’s abstracted forms summon the rituals and cosmologies of African and Eastern traditions. Through her layered compositions, Legoabe speculates not on science fiction futures, but on ancient futures, those shaped by the deep memory of nature, becoming a meditation on identity as something cyclical and porous. A quiet interplay of image and cultural memory guides the hand of Abdesslem Ayed, whose work evokes scenes of intimacy and worlds not rooted in reality. By assembling fragments of personal and collective history, Ayed creates spaces that feel both devotional and domestic, where cherubs float beside the mundane, and embroidery stitches together past and present. In contrast, a more eruptive sensibility challenges the abstract, as Nada Baraka conjures visceral worlds that resist stasis. These compositions are not static images but unstable environments with spaces suspended in unresolved tension. Together, these artists gesture toward unseen realms that are inherited, imagined, or intuited. Evidence of Things Not Seen is not about what can be proven, but what can be believed.

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