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Meet Walid El Masri
Walid El Masri @walidelmasri_art trained in marquetry before studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, graduating in 2005, and was formed under major artists such as Marwan Kassab-Bachi, Nazir Nabaa, and Ziad Dalloul. His work has been shown internationally from London and Paris to Dubai and Hong Kong always circling around memory, identity, and material.
For the “Still Here” exhibition, we’re showing the series Les Enfants (The Children), begun in 2011 as direct portraits of children affected by conflict. Over time, the paintings evolved into something quieter: a sanctuary of memory and imagination, where the figures are painted like mist or fleeting grains of dust almost impossible to hold while the objects beside them remain sharp and solid, witnesses to a fading presence. El Masri says of them:
“They are survivors of tragedies for which they bear no fault. The transparent colors on a raw background grant them a freedom with no fixed place, and no identity whose price they must pay. A toy, a fish, small things they cling to enough to lighten the weight of a world that watches them as a mere spectator.”
📍 Opens 8 October at Rotondes @rotondes
@creative.eu @comparative_research_network @stowarzyszeniedlaziemi
Design by: @mousa.al.shammas
Walid El Masri @walidelmasri_art trained in marquetry before studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, graduating in 2005, and was formed under major artists such as Marwan Kassab-Bachi, Nazir Nabaa, and Ziad Dalloul. His work has been shown internationally from London and Paris to Dubai and Hong Kong always circling around memory, identity, and material.
For the “Still Here” exhibition, we’re showing the series Les Enfants (The Children), begun in 2011 as direct portraits of children affected by conflict. Over time, the paintings evolved into something quieter: a sanctuary of memory and imagination, where the figures are painted like mist or fleeting grains of dust almost impossible to hold while the objects beside them remain sharp and solid, witnesses to a fading presence. El Masri says of them:
“They are survivors of tragedies for which they bear no fault. The transparent colors on a raw background grant them a freedom with no fixed place, and no identity whose price they must pay. A toy, a fish, small things they cling to enough to lighten the weight of a world that watches them as a mere spectator.”
📍 Opens 8 October at Rotondes @rotondes
@creative.eu @comparative_research_network @stowarzyszeniedlaziemi
Design by: @mousa.al.shammas
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