NADIA ABATORAB-MANIKOWSKA

Cluster Photography & Print Exhibitor | Rising Talent Showcase | 2025

Nadia Magda Abatorab-Manikowska (b. 1999) is a Polish-Moroccan artist based in London, working with photography and moving image. Her practice explores memory, intimacy, and the sensory experience of place, seeking to bridge the gap between audience and image through multi-sensory encounters. Her work examines the echoes of time, using light, texture, and movement to evoke connection beyond the visual.

She holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and a BA (Hons) from the University of Westminster, drawing influence from phenomenology, feminist theory, and poetic abstraction. She is the co-founder of Flowers of Lilith, a curatorial collective dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices through exhibitions and public programmes.

Her work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom at the Truman Brewery, Ugly Duck Gallery, Copeland Gallery, and Photo Fringe, as well as in France at Rencontres d’Arles. Alongside her artistic practice, Nadia is committed to museum and archival work, using imaging and curation as tools for preservation, interpretation, and storytelling.

Contemporary artist working in photography, moving image, and sensory installation.

Nadia Magda Abatorab-Manikowska’s practice explores memory, desire, and human connection through ephemeral traces—where light, shadow, and texture evoke what lingers beneath the surface. Her work moves between presence and absence, revealing the echoes of the past inscribed in the present.

Memories Kept is an exploration of fleeting imprints—where landscapes hold the weight of remembrance. Light bends, surfaces dissolve, and the familiar is rendered distant, inviting the viewer to step into the space between recollection and forgetting. If Pleasure Had a Body inhabits the charged atmosphere of nightlife, where desire is both seen and imagined. Gaze touches bodies before hands do, longing flickers in neon-lit shadows, and queer spaces become arenas of projection and liberation.

Through layered imagery and abstraction, Abatorab-Manikowska invites the viewer into a sensorial experience—one that lingers beyond sight, unfolding in the mind and body long after the image has faded.

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