Megumi Yoshitake: A Japanese Photographer in the Syrian Dessert
Photo London, 16-19 May 2024 Yoshitake first visited Syria on her own in 1987. When she got married, in 2001, she spent her honeymoon there, and in 2004 when her son was just sixteen months old, the family travelled to Syria all together. They returned every year. Megumi writes about how she spent part of every [...]
Sabhan Adam
Sabhan Adam’s work is tinged with a self-proclaimed ‘Orwellian’ character, as can be seen in this figure above. The artist borrows from Klimt’s famous gold shroud and subverts its opulence with the supernatural and the othered. His figures, less human and more creature-like, appear endowed with a kind of anatomical monstrosity. Much of [...]
MARWAN Der Unverdeckt 1969
Marwan - Der Unverdeckte, 1969 Etched Print 1/6 The renowned work of Syrian-born artist Marwan Kassab Bachi has acquired international recognition from a number of reputable British art institutions such as the British Museum, Tate Modern and Christie’s, among others, as well as academic recognition with a permanent professorship at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. [...]
Mohamad Labash
Mohamad Labash is one of Syria’s emerging contemporary artists. He graduated in 2013 from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University, and his work has since been exhibited internationally in London, Paris, Milan, Washington DC and in Nara, Japan, amongst others. Labash’s work is charged with powerful depictions of emotion-with an emphasis on the [...]
Reminiscence of Faces
This piece by Mohamad Labash belongs to a series of paintings called ‘Reminiscence of Faces’. Labash’s portraits are a powerful representation of captivity and dehumanisation, as the subjects’ faces are obstructed by abstract strokes of paint. Like much of his other work, it is difficult for one to look at this portrait without noting the [...]
Introduction to Velvet Society by Prof. Janis Jeffries
Introduction Prof. Janis Jefferies Velvet Society: Power and Glamour in 90s Damascus Raghad Mardini and Heba Al-Akkad in dialogue The Litehouse Gallery is a unique space for showing work by Syrian artists, many of whom escaped war. The gallery’s founding director Raghad Mardini was born in Damascus but escaped to Lebanon. She created a [...]
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