In the most recent work of the photographer Farah Al Qasimi, people are largely absent, or they are merely suggested. But the interior scenes — all shot in Ms. Qasimi’s home country, the United Arab Emirates — are full of color and pattern.

In “After Dinner” (2018), a pink velvet sofa, pillow and matching drapes take up most of the image; look closely, though, and there is a pair of feet in patterned socks in a corner, belonging to an unseen person who is lying down on part of the sofa. Someone else’s hand and water bottle are emerging from behind a drape.

“Dyed Pastel Birds (30 AED each)” from 2019 shows three little birds in yellow, aqua and pink on a patterned stone floor. In “Rose 1 (Tomato)” (2018), a bright red tomato carved into a flower rests against an intense backdrop of nearly the same shade; Ms. Qasimi did the handiwork herself, after ordering a $5 paring knife on Amazon and teaching herself the technique via YouTube videos.

Those images are among the 10 evocative and somewhat mysterious photographs by Ms. Qasimi being shown at Art Basel this week, in the booth of The Third Line, a gallery in Dubai; a video completes the presentation.