IN COLLABORATION WITH DAR HESSA FOR ARTS |
12 February – 11 April 2024
In collaboration with Dar Hessa for Arts
“Mazyouna” is a colloquial word that means a beautiful woman, but when the beauty of the face is united with the beauty of the soul, the moon’s circle is complete. She is the one who propelled me to enhance her adornment, scattering my symbols in her angelic surroundings. I give her giant wings to soar high, defying reality and those who attempt to label her with weakness and surrender. When the beauty of the face is united with the beauty of the soul, the moon’s circle is complete. She is the one who propelled me to enhance her adornment, scattering my symbols in her angelic surroundings. I give her giant wings to soar high, defying reality and those who attempt to label her with weakness and surrender.
Thuraya Al-Baqsami was born in 1951. A Kuwaiti artist, writer, and printmaker widely regarded as one of the pioneers of contemporary art in the Gulf region. She studied art and literature at Surikov University in Moscow from 1974 to 1981, and her work has been included in over 60 exhibitions around the world. Al-Baqsami is celebrated for her exploration of themes related to identity, gender, and the human condition.
In my childhood, my favourite game was to stare at other people’s faces, read them stories, and draw their pictures in my childish imagination. That is why my memory was crowded with faces that I carried with me for seven decades. I scattered them on paper and canvas pieces, showered them with colour, flooded them with inks, outlined them with pens, and engraved them on linoleum pieces, copper, and silk screens.
