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Tribune News Network
Doha
UNDER the guidance of Qatar Museums' (QM) Chairperson, HE Sheikha al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, QM unveiled the first Fire Station, 'Artist in Residence' exhibition.
The exhibition will be on show at the Garage Gallery at the Fire Station until the end of November 2016.
As the current Artist in Residence programme draws to a close, the exhibition celebrates the huge accomplishments of the current group of 18 artists in residence, 10 of whom are Qatari. The exhibition showcases selected works from each of the artists during their nine months in residency. It features a range of mediums including art, photography, design and architecture and incorporates a variety of processes, research, prototypes and finished outcomes. The exhibition provides artists with a platform where they can showcase their works and skills to the media, the community, fans of art and culture and collectors.
On show as part of the exhibition are artworks by Qatari artists in residence Aisha al Sowaidi, Hana Saleh al Saadi and Roda Ibrahim al Nasr. Sowadi's work, titled 'Remembrance of a Majlis', signifies memory and remembrance. The piece represents a traditional majlis setting and conveys how memories are shifted and altered from what people see in that current moment, to what they remember in the future. Hana's works primarily in sculpture to interrogate the way an object can communicate certain ideas through its existence alone. Roda's works across painting, photography, sculpture and installation often take one medium and appropriating it into another. The artist presents three new paintings and a set of sculptures that observe and exaggerate our changing attitudes towards cultural history and tangible, global identities.
Commenting on the exhibition launch, Khalifa al Obaidli, director of the Fire Station, said:"I am immensely proud to witness the incredible achievements of every single talented artist, presented beautifully in this end of residency exhibition. Each and every artist has pushed the boundaries of innovation and creativity to raise the bar in contemporary art in the region and this exhibition highlights just how much our art community is flourishing. To see Qatar and its interest in artists grow is a great thing for the next generation of artistic talent in our country."
The Fire Station will welcome the next batch of 'talented creatives' in September 2016, and 150 applications have been received from creative individuals across the country, eager to become one of the next 18 artists to take part.
