Filed under: Arab Culture in the Diaspora, Exhibitions, National Council Days | Tags: al-araby magazine, arts and letters, Exhibition, funoon gallery, national council for culture
as soon as i walked into the hall i saw my girls to the left. this does them so much more justice than being cooped up at home!
What an exhilarating afternoon. I was like a starstruck fan waddling through Al-Funoon Gallery taking photos of artists I knew and others I suspected were! To me personally, The Arab Culture in the Diaspora exhibition wasn’t just about these quite accomplished artists’ works being exhibited here in Kuwait, but that my work was among theirs. I wasn’t quite prepared for the sort of elation I would feel being in the same room (two rooms actually; the Ahmed Al-Adwany hall was also utilized) as all these great minds. And then there was the art. After the initial shell shock of taking in the rich crowd of artists, writers, musicians and lovers of all things cultural, my eyes fell on the works and I remembered that this was the reason why I was there. In this post, I’d like to share some my favorites with you. I do hope you take a visit to the gallery to see the show for yourself.
The exhibition will be up today and tomorrow. (more…)
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Filed under: Exhibitions | Tags: arab, culture, diaspora, Exhibition, funoon gallery
mom and her four daughters, 2012, will be one of four paintings i exhibit in monday's show
I am very pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting four of my paintings at the Al-Arabi Magazine’s upcoming exhibition Arab Culture in the Diaspora. It honors me to know that my works will be hanging among some of the region’s best: Ali Taleb, Fatima El Hajj, Ahmad Al-Hajari, Jaafar Islah, Sabeeha Bishara, Diaa Al Azzawi, Helmi Al Tuni, Afifa Al Aiby and Malika Akzanai.
The exhibition will take place at the Funoon Gallery in Thahiat Abdullah Al-Salem, opening Monday, March 12 at 7pm. The show will be up until Wednesday, March 14.
*Correction! Exhibition opens at 4:30! A very unusual time.
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Filed under: Exhibitions, Gallery Tilal, Stories of Eves, Stories of Eves|Exhibition, The Kuwait Scene | Tags: alkandari, Exhibition, Gallery Tilal, mohammed, opening, photos, stories of eves
And another opening passes by. I wish I could have enjoyed it more but I was (and still am) in the midst of nursing what feels like a stomach virus again. For someone who takes pleasure in food, that sucks. I hope, however, that for those of you who didn’t attend, you enjoy the photos taken last night by my brother, Mohammed. For those of you who were there, I thank you. It means a lot to me that you came. (more…)
Filed under: Eventful, Exhibitions, Kuwait 50/20 Exhibition, Sometimes I think I'm a photographer | Tags: 50/20, bassem mansour, Exhibition, farah behbehani, fatima al qadiri, Kuwait, monira al qadiri, Sultan Gallery
the gallery, a tree of life and the water which feeds it
I finally managed to make it to The Sultan Gallery this morning for a much-anticipated group show Exhibition 50/20. Most of the artists exhibiting here, when you put them in a room together, you’re going to get something like this: the ugly beautiful, the beautiful ugly, gender mish-mashes, political hodgepodge, religious under-, over- and in-between-tones, and in this instance a tantric tree of life. (more…)
Filed under: Cultural Re-Expressions 101, Exhibitions | Tags: acrylic, alkandari, culture, Exhibition, Kuwait, Paintings, re-expression, tareq
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A tour of the 2004 exhibition Cultural Re-Expressions 101. The idea and production was my brother Tareq’s and the paintings were done by me. Enjoy!
Filed under: dar al-funoon, Exhibitions, fairuz | Tags: dar al-funoon, exhbition, fairuz, gallery, Kuwait, summer
I am proud to say that Fairuz is now hanging at the Dar Al-Funoon Gallery as part of its annual summer exhibit. The gallery, situated in the Behbehani Villas in Sharq (see map), is open twice a day every day except for Friday and Saturday. Times: 10am-1pm/4pm-7pm
Thanks to photographer Khaled Al-Saleh and Simon Balsom for the photos.
Filed under: Exhibitions | Tags: 2006, amira behbehani, Exhibition, institut du monde arabe, Kuwait, suhaila al-najdi, thuraya al-baqsami
my girls at a soiree with thuraya's ladies
In November 2006, Kuwaiti artists Thuraya Al-Baqsami, Amira Behbehani, Suhaila Al-Najdi and I were invited to exhibit our works at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. It was a good opportunity for four Kuwaiti women to showcase a sample of their works and a great opportunity for me to discover Paris with three young, vivacious conspirators!
These are some photos from the pre-exhibition. To me, the preparations which went into this exhibition were the right way to go about things. The lighting was taken care of a specialist lighting team and was spot on (pun). I wish I had more photos of the gallery. I’m sorry that I didn’t take more photos of Suhaila’s work. It was a bit of a whirlwind four days. (more…)
Filed under: Exhibitions, The Yellow Tape Portraits | Tags: acrylic, canvas, Kuwait, oil pastels, painting, portrait, Portraits, tape, yellow
Paintings from 2009′s The Yellow Tape Portraits. These are not titled. The large, full scale women are about 100cm x 250cm and the medium portraits are 91cm x 152cm. Two are 12ocm x 152cm. I wanted to keep them all as uniform as I could without sacrificing too much color and variation in facial features and expression. This is my army of women who protected me at one of the most vulnerable periods of my life. (more…)
Filed under: Exhibitions, Forty-Eight Women, a Kitten & Pele, Paintings | Tags: acrylic, aunties, exhibtion, Kuwait, painting, sisters
the fly
