CURATION
What lies beneath colour
Hafez Gallery – Jeddah , Saudi Arabia
23 January – 6 April 2023
What lies beneath colour is the first large-scale retrospective of the work by Saudi Arabian artist Dr. Sami Al Marzoogi. The exhibition brings together more than 150 drawings and paintings of the self-taught artist, who has a background in Radiology, produced between 1986 and 2022., Al Marzoogi’s prolific oeuvre reveals the artist’s decades-long quest for uncovering the transformational potential of colour and line through an expressive visual language that resides at the borderline between figuration and abstraction.
Hurriyat Jeddah
Hafez Gallery – Jeddah , Saudi Arabia
24 November 2022 – 5 January 2023
The Mermaids of Jeddah series expands on Amira Nazer’s exploration of material by exploring the tension, freedom, beauty, and constraint present in Jeddawi women’s lives. This intimate exhibition captures various presentations of a covered body within a range of natural environments: those experienced by both the mermaid and the native Jeddah woman.
Mapping Home
Shara Art Fair – Jeddah , Saudi Arabia
18 November – 22 November 2020
Mapping Home is inspired by the fragile layers of our relationship with space in a visually geographic form. The exhibition explores the idea of a home being both a physical and metaphorical place and the relationship between our birthplace and the place we call home. This evokes complex emotions such as displacement, migration, home, identity, birth, and longing and questions the transparent contradiction between longing for permanence whilst actively seeking freedom.
The Viewing Room
ATHR Gallery- Jeddah , Saudi Arabia
6 February – 12 April 2020
The Viewing Room is an initiative to shed light on Athr Gallery’s established artists with the intent to bring back the art of collecting. Art collectors often shape contemporary art history because of their unique decisions and thoughtful connections with other art enthusiasts and market players. This exhibition visually highlights work by established artists who have created an extensive body of independent work with a strong cultural and social narrative
