Past Through Here
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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