so happy to have shown in @abudhabiart
grateful to be among so many talented people and im so happy to have met such beautiful souls. the connections and amazing energy i received have made me feel so revitalized and gave me the purest form of love.
thank you to @wusumgallery and the lovely people behind it.
thank you to my friends who gave me the most wonderful time.
and thank you to my camera for making all this possible.
forever grateful and blessed.
hamad
A long overdue post, but i’m so happy to have shown my work at @miskartinst during their Misk Art Week in December, part of the Mirqab exhibition. This video means a lot to me and I’m so happy to know it resonated with so many people who viewed it.
I’d like to thank the wonderful curator, who created the most beautiful space for someone to exist: @022ar
and i’d like to thank my mother most of all.
had the great opportunity to present this work titled ‘images from the Other World’ @wusumgallery ’s inaugural exhibition ‘Revolving Rooms’, the gallery is founded by the wonderful @wadha.jpg & @elinasairanen in Doha. The exhibition is open until the 28th of Feb.
The work (photographs and a video) is inspired by David Wojnarowicz’s concept of the “Other World”, where he says that the world is sometimes only beautiful if you look at it from a deep close up, or a birds eye view. He said this while struggling with chronic illness and the world around him looked like a bleak and deathly landscape, but something still called him to find beauty in the world. This is my interpretation of this concept. Beauty is always parallel with suffering if you choose to find it.
thanks to
@wadha.jpg@elinasairanen@hassan.althani@alessandraelchanti@thajbaalfayhani@azizalhamdii
and my mom
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Images from the Other World
2024
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth
10 x 13.3 cm each
Images from the Other World
2024
Colour, video, sound
02:50 minutes
Naso Studio Visits
Hamad AlFayhani (@hamad.jf ) at his residency at the @dohafirestation in Qatar ✨
Naso Art Journal presents a special short-form collaborative studio visit with Hamad AlFayhani, developed during his time in residence at the Fire Station in Doha.
Naso Art Journal shares an intimate glimpse into his studio, offering insight into both his process and the conditions shaping the work. This feature is part of a series spotlighting artists currently in residence, with a longer written editorial to follow.
Through this collaboration, we continue our commitment to spending time with artists in their working environments, foregrounding process, presence, and the realities that shape artistic production.
🎥: @vertygo.art
My ongoing documentation of a series I am calling ‘وحتى الشوارع تذكر اسمه / Even the streets recite his name’
Like most of my work, it starts with an obsession; last year I became hyperfixated on the idea of doing good for the sake of doing good. What does it mean to do good and expect nothing of value in return? What does it mean to do good in the eyes of the God watching over you? What is goodness if it is never known, never shown, never experienced directly through a person?
These signs scattered across neighborhoods, streets, and places all over the country are a manifestation of the goodness I was trying to capture. People put them up anonymously, hoping that passersby will receive the good deeds of reading this ذكر — this remembrance of God. And in turn, the person who puts the sign up also receives good deeds back. It becomes a cycle of goodness, forever in motion. An infinity loop of selfless giving.
My goal is to document all of these signs across Doha myself, and eventually try to create a map of them. The artistry, design, and calligraphy are so beautiful, and I can’t wait to share them all as time goes on. (Maybe a book? :) )
Photos taken on 35mm film.
Stone carved as shell.
Thinking of what it takes to keep returning to the same form across centuries; in jewelry, in architecture, in the hands of someone who never saw the sea. As if the shell is less an object than an obsession. As if we carve it in stone not to preserve it but to finally stop dreaming about it.
Some things that have been on my mind and in my mind.
1. Constantin Brancusi, Sleep, 1908
2. Tumblr: julykings
3. Akiyoshi Terashima, from Photographers Index 1, 1985
4. The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991, hervé guibert
5. Ziad Antar
6. Abalones
7. Maria Denise Dessimoz, The Inevitable Anguish of Desire
8. Twin Peaks, S2 Ep9
9. Abbas Kiarostami
10. Robert Mapplethorpe, white gauze, 1984
11. Richard Siken
12. Céline, Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992
13. Shinji Ihara
14. Anne Boyer
15. Fire Walk With Me, 1992
16. Sontag, 1966
17. Ed Weston, Pepper No. 30, 1930
18. Ziad Antar
19. Alec Soth, 2002
20. Tony Cragg, Stone Curve photographed by Roger Ackling, 1972
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