The Art Space is an art gallery, creative hub and cafe rooted in the Bahrain Bay Wharf, a new location for art and luxury overlooking landmarks such as the Four Seasons Hotel, Bahrain Financial Harbour and the World Trade Center. The gallery is situated alongside an up-and-coming touristic hub of restaurants and entertainment outlets in the heart of Manama. The gallery is dedicated to fostering Bahrain’s diverse and dynamic creative community, and endeavour to support and promote the visual arts and contemporary culture of the Arab world.
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Highlights from the exhibition include: May Hejiri’s Conversations with the Moon series, where she playfully depicts her fictional “moon people”; Eskandar Dewani’s evocative portraiture of women, Sarah Aradi’s veiled woman from different geographical contexts; Mashael Al Saie’s Short Film “Dihin” with graceful visuals alongside overlapping voice messages; Mayasa Al Sowaidi’s Collection: Faces that embodies a spectrum of emotions that are usually hidden.
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Mashael Al Saie’s film voices the ineffable relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter. Her work pronounces the exchange of love, kindness and playful finger-wagging in the form of voice-notes carried alongside graceful visuals. The cadence of her grandmother’s voice, the structure of the messages overlapping, the distant and tender communications peppered with Bahrain colloquialisms, showcases an affection that can only be provided by a maternal figure. This love knows no perimeters and is unconditional.
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