Past Through Here came out of a year of research, piecing together forgotten details, scattered sources, and overlooked stories.
Mentored by @sultanalqassemi & @suheyla.takesh I had the privilege to research Inji Efflatoun’s childhood and her early political awakenings to her prison years and the women who surrounded her and shaped the woman she turned out to be. The research covered both whats visible in her work and what remains unsaid.
Spending times with archives, books, and interviews trying to understand how resistance could take so many forms: public, intimats, quiet, or loud. What you saw on the walls was one outcome, but this post reflects a bit of the process to what got us here.
Collection:
@barjeelart
Mentors:
@sultanalqassemi@suheyla.takesh
12 curators:
@omar.elsiddig@ahnaf.aar@abdullah.y03@mtm.jpeg@moejo_22@mayed_ys@sssultan_0@bymaryambinbishr@jitaksharaa@_salmahilal@ha.lsh@__aayyash
Past Through Here
ماض من هنا
The past does not stand still. It moves through us, the places we leave, the ones we return to, and the spaces we create in between.
Developed by students during a semester-long Arts Practicum at CAAD, Past Through Here explores memory as a living, layered process—where personal and collective histories intersect, surface, and transform over time. Featuring works from the Barjeel Art Foundation’s collection, the exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations that reflect on nostalgia, displacement, and aspiration. Rather than offering fixed narratives, the exhibition invites reflection on how memory is carried, reinterpreted, and continuously reshaped—asking what we keep, what we let go of, and how the past moves forward with us.
12 curators:
@omar.elsiddig@ahnaf.aar@abdullah.y03@mtm.jpeg@moejo_22@mayed_ys@sssultan_0@jitaksharaa@_salmahilal@ha.lsh@__aayyash
With support and guidance from:
@barjeelart@suheyla.takesh@caadaus@sultanalqassemi
