Ayman Yossri Daydban
Daydban 03, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
AYD0624
Ayman Yossri Daydban
Daydban 04, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
AYD0625
Farah Behbehani
In your light I learnt how to love,
In your beauty I found poetry,
You danced inside my heart,
Where no one else can see you” - (Rumi), 2016
Embroidery on linen
120 x 120 cm
FAB0012
Farah Behbehani
In your light I learnt how to love,
In your beauty I found poetry,
You danced inside my heart,
Where no one else can see you” - (Rumi), 2016
Embroidery on linen
120 x 120 cm
FAB0011
Nasser Al Salem
Kul V, 2016
Print on acid free paper, faced with diasec
53 x 102 cm (20 13/16 x 40 1/8 in.)
NAS0278
Saddek Wasil
Brick XV, 2016
Demolished bricks and recycled metal
40 x 50 x 23 cm
SAW0173
Saddek Wasil
Brick XVI, 2016
Demolished bricks and recycled metal
35 x 50 x 22 cm
SAW0174
Ziad Antar
Church, 2013
Silver print mounted on dibond
120 x 120 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.)
From Liminal Resolutions, Edition of 5 + 1 AP
ZIA0023
Ziad Antar
Swings, 2013
Silver print mounted on dibond
120 x 120 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.)
From Liminal Resolutions, Edition of 5 + 1 AP
ZIA0006
Asma Bahmim
The Hejazi Knight II from Love story series, 2016
Gouache, hand painting, collage, gold leaf on paper
40 x 30 cm
ABM0022
Asma Bahmim
The Hejazi Knight III from Love story series, 2016
Gouache, hand painting, collage, gold leaf on paper
40 x 30 cm
ABM0023
Asma Bahmim
Mess universal From Paradise Garden in Maddinah series, 2016
Gouache, hand painting, collage, gold leaf on paper
40 x 30 cm
ABM0017
Aya Haidar
Postcard Collection 2: Untitled 2, 6, 18, 40, 44, 54, 34, 31, 8, 9, 11 and 12, 2016
Embroidery on postcard
From the Wish You Were Here series
AYH0072
Muhannad Shono
35.1655°N , 45.9896 °E , From the I'm Sorry from Above series, 2016
Ink on Paper
57 x 57 cm
Muhannad Shono
36.7165°N, 37.1146 °E , From the I'm Sorry from Above series, 2016
Ink on Paper
57 x 57 cm
Muhannad Shono
37.0344° N, 27.4305° E , From the I'm Sorry from Above series, 2016
Ink on Paper
57 x 57 cm
Sara Abdu
Temporal Distance, 2016
Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic
220 x 220 cm
SAB0106
Daniah Al Saleh
Pedestrian
Water Color and Pencil on Paper
146.5 x 150.5 cm
DAS0012
Daniah Al Saleh
My Tribe
Water color, guache, pencil and natural pigment on paper
83.5 x 131.5 cm
DAS0021
Mohamed AbdelRasoul
Another Planet 01, 2015
Ink on Paper
60 x 60 cm
MAR0021
Mohamed AbdelRasoul
Another Planet 05, 2015
Ink on Paper
60 x 60 cm
MAR0027
Mohamed AbdelRasoul
Another Planet 06, 2015
Ink on Paper
60 x 60 cm
MAR0028
Mohamed AbdelRasoul
Another Planet 07, 2015
Ink on Paper
60 x 60 cm
MAR0029
Mohamed AbdelRasoul
Another Planet 08, 2015
Ink on Paper
60 x 60 cm
MAR0030
Mohamed AbdelRasoul
Another Planet 10, 2015
Ink on Paper
60 x 60 cm
MAR0032
The direct translation of Kul is ‘all’ or ‘everything’. However, the connotation of the word Kul in the Arabic language is so much more complex in its all-encompassing meaning and implication of infinity. This meaning is compounded by the artist’s technique of calligraphically depicting the word Kul repeatedly, so that it resembles an endless ripple effect.
The impression of never-ending repetition is not merely a reflection of God’s abundance on Earth, but an indication to look both further, and deeper, to penetrate the mere appearance and surface of things, to discover the hidden messages that all aesthetic creation hold.
Once, we thought the atom was the smallest particle, before we discovered that it was made of numerous smaller ones, as we once thought that the extent of our universe was the Milky Way Galaxy, before we discovered that there were hundreds of billions more galaxies out there. As God’s creation is infinite, and while we can say or write the word ‘infinite’ easily, it is impossible to imagine as it extends far beyond the human brain’s capacity for comprehension. Therefore, if one thinks of Kul too deeply or for too long, they might realize that it doesn’t exist; there is no ‘all’ or ‘everything’.
Wish You Were Here is a collection of 100 used postcards from across Europe, which are doctored using hand embroidery. Each subtle intervention presents a social commentary reflecting the current landscape across the region.
Postcards serve to highlight the beauty of a city or landscape yet never seem to present the whole reality. The composition of the postcard images are so well framed and immaculate that such embroidered interventions serve to broaden the lens towards a more realistic insight of the current socio-political context. Beautiful shots of the Mediterranean coast are carefully altered to include rubber dinghies carrying refugees towards shore or gorgeous piazzas play host to a multitude of tented settlements or protests.
The embroidered additions take such stagnant images and pull them into a current discourse of border politics amidst an ever escalating refugee crisis. The title, Wish You Were Here, has a direct relational association to postcards and highlights the link that postcards have to 'home' or a sense of 'longing for home'. The irony of the pun intended, that someone would 'wish they were there' when considering the stark reality of what is being represented. Each embroidered postcard is unique and presents its own narrative. They are presented as an installation, onto rotating postcard stands, for the audience to navigate around and intimately view and reflect on the reality that each postcard presents.
Participating Artists:
Abdulaziz Al Rashedi
Asma Bahamim
Aya Haidar
Ayman Yossri Daydban
Dana Awartani
Dania Al Saleh
Farah Behbehani
Hazem Harb
Mohammed AbdelRasoul
Mohammed Haider
Muhannad Shono
Nasser Al Salem
Saddek Wasil
Sara Abdu
Shadia Alem
Ziad Antar
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