Ayyam gallery

ARTISTS

Rumi Dalle

Mouteea Murad

Faisal Al Samra

Safwan Dahoul

Tammam Azzam

Aligning with this year’s theme, we have selected five artists whose work reflects in concept, technique or medium the ideas of ‘textile’ and ‘diaspora’. We are looking to showcase Rumi Dalle’s beautiful golden textile piece. She is dedicated to preserving traditional crafts whilst revisiting fabric in new ways, playing around with its fluidity and malleability. Mouteea Murad references the theme of textile, in a rather unconventional way. Through his characteristic overlapping shapes and lines, it’s almost as if Mouteea weaves with paint. On adjacent walls, displayed will be Faisal Al Samra’s artwork that is performative in nature with a sense of movement that marks his practice. In Faisal’s work, we have explored the topic of diaspora in terms of the accumulation of movement to produce a visual dispersion. Safwan Dahoul’s paintings are strong in symbolism. The boat, paper planes and universe all indicates this sense of travel and a particular longing for home. Finally, trying the themes together, we have Tammam Azzam’s ‘Laundry Series’. Aside from the association of the subject matter being textile, it connotes to the memory of his hometown in Syria.