The Stories We Share: Noormah Jamal & Samuel Nnorom
Untitled Art, Miami Beach, Booth A22 December 2 - 7, 2025
KATES-FERRI PROJECTS presents Storytelling: The Stories We Share Noormah Jamal & Samuel Nnorom
Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2025 Booth A22 | December 2 – 7, 2025
At the heart of every culture is a story told, remembered, passed down. For its booth at Untitled Art, Miami Beach, Kates-Ferri Projects brings together two powerful voices, Noormah Jamal and Samuel Nnorom, whose practices are rooted in storytelling as a form of resistance, remembrance, and connection. Across geographies, languages, and mediums, they transform memory into matter, and personal histories into shared experiences.
Though hailing from Pakistan (Jamal) and Nigeria (Nnorom), the artists are united by a devotion to material experimentation, ancestral knowledge, and the belief that storytelling not only preserves identity - but it also expands it. The stories they carry are not confined to the past. They are reactivated through form, color, and symbol, speaking to new audiences while honoring the voices that shaped them.
Noormah Jamal draws from oral histories and the tradition of Mughal miniature painting to construct symbolic worlds. Her work is a dialogue between generations blending past and present through delicate linework, childlike wonder, and refined discipline.
Samuel Nnorom stitches foam orbs and African wax fabric into sculptural constellations - a “fabric of society” that speaks of collectivity, post-colonial identity, and the invisible threads that hold communities together.
Both Jamal and Nnorom turn to their cultural heritage not to retreat into tradition, but to expand its potential. Whether through surrealist ceramics and figurative paintings or webbed textile constellations they use storytelling to bridge generations, heal silences, and build space for futures that are luminous and unafraid. Storytelling is how they resist erasure, how they reclaim space, how they connect. In Jamal and Nnorom’s work, memory becomes material. Personal becomes collective. The local becomes universal.
Two artists. Two continents. Far apart yet drawn together by the stories that shaped them. These are the stories we share.
Noormah Jamal is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist. She graduated from the National College of Arts Lahore in 2016, majoring in Mughal Miniature Painting and earned her Masters in Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute, NY in 2023.
Her work centers around identity and the personal baggage that people carry. Her image making and sculptures are deeply rooted in the oral histories of her people and family.
She was an artist in residence at VASL Karachi, for the Taaza Tareen 2019 cycle, was awarded the Imran Mir art prize in 2019 and was an Artist in residence with the Children’s Museum of NYC in 2024. Currently she is a member of the Elizabeth foundation for the arts, Manhattan studio program
Samuel Nnorom, based in Nigeria, will present large scale, soft sculptures made of traditional African wax fabrics, foam, and scraps of textiles, engulfing the walls like barnacles or ivy. By sewing, tying, and cutting - skills inherited by his mother. Nnorom creates intricate constellations of foam balls stitched together, a metaphor for the “fabric of society”: “Fabrics evoke a sense of social structure that interlaces humanity into society; however, when referring to the “fabric of society”, it is unique to different societies which informs my contemplation consumerism, industrialization, and colonial remnants. These themes are sometimes expressed through metaphors such as bubble forms, bindle forms, lines of fabric strips, exploded bubbles, and tied clothes. Such expressions respond to our daily lives and struggles while fostering commonality and social connection.” Nnorom’s fiber art, with its tactile and textured nature symbolizes the interconnectedness of cultures and societies while exploring complex narratives about identity, cultural memory, and tradition.
Available Art from Noormah Jamal