What makes an icon? What gives its significance?! Is is size, color, meaning, myth or purely personal association?! These were the questions Kuwaiti artist Abdullah Al Awadi raised in his latest solo exhibition at Dar AlFunoon. “Anmat” , which means in English Patterns, Al Awadi takes the viewer into an optical illusion of icons that touched his…
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2 Days Workshop of “The Other Resurrection”
Al Mahha took part of a 2 days photography workshop by Contemporary Art Platform CAP and Rawiya ‘s “The Other Resurrection” by photographers Laura Boushnak and Tamara Abdul Hadi. The first day of the workshop was an outdoor photography in Kuwait’s old and traditional open-air market “Souk Al Mubarkiya” where we were asked to…
Oussama Diab Presents The “New Pieta”
Is it an endless fight?! An endless suffering for the innocents?! When was it a crime to fight for your land?! Why is it forgivable to violate humanity?! On May 15, 2012 marks the 64th anniversary of 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba (disaster) and someone asked yesterday: will our kids live another years of Nakba…
“The Power of…” Embodies “Pain is Beauty”!
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey “The Power of…” a controversial photography exhibition by Lebanese artist Mohamad Badr were he recorded the spiritual rituals of “Ashoraa” in southern Lebanon city, Nabaiyeh, in 2011. …
Usra Al Madhoun Poetic Photography
“Aged 9 in the heart, 90 in mind, 19 on paper. Photography has been my secret hiding place since 2008. My personal diary, if I may say.” Usra Al Madhoun Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1993, Usra Al Madhoun started photography at age 13. She practice artistic photography as an art rather than hobby at the age of…
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