Damascus-SANA
Fifteen participants, mostly women, whose ages ranged between 16 and 75 years, from the Khatwa group, who attended, through their works, emphasizing the Syrian heritage and the revival of popular memory in an art exhibition entitled (Memory and Yasmine).
The exhibition, which was hosted by the Arab Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh, included more than 30 works by professional and innate artists, combining a love of art, heritage and homeland.
The artist, Osama Diab, explained to SANA that the exhibition is the fifth for the Khatwa group, which is held annually for a group of women, housewives, artists, fungi and owners of talents. Syrian art has the responsibility to bear it despite all the calamities.
The artist Samah Zarzour participated in two oil works that talk about Damascus, its spirit and popular memory of Al-Mahbaj, the perfumed one, the Damascene chair, and the old houses in Syria, pointing out that caring for heritage means belonging to the homeland, and Syria is rich in beauty, and the plastic artist must revive it.
The artist Hana Al-Uqla participated in a painting entitled (Drowning), which was distinguished by her exploration of the depths of man and its fiery colors, pointing out that she chose this title for her to express the penetration of man into the details of his small life and his inner life.
The plastic artist, Muhammad Khaddour, explained that he participated in two paintings that he derived from heritage and rural folk memory in the Syrian coast, in addition to a painting about making dishes from straw and the other about breaking olives, considering that reviving memory means reminding the past and working to revive it.
Sidra Jawad, 16 years old, participated in the exhibition with two paintings on the folk costume in the Circassian heritage, and indicated that she chose this style to express the color of cultures in Syria and to revive the diverse cultural heritage to pour all of it into the love of the homeland.
The artist, Hanan Mohamed Ibrahim, participated for the fourth time in the “Step by Two” exhibition, with two works, oil on canvas, including the folk costume, to revive the popular memory and the material and immaterial heritage.
Bilal Ahmad