Female artistic experiences in my way exhibition

Tartous-Sana

Approximately 150 various paintings from schools of fine art were drawn by 15 women from Tartous of different ages who gathered in the art exhibition “My Way” hosted by the Old City Hall on the sea corniche.

The participants expressed their inner potentials to embody women in their various social and psychological situations from their own perspective, so they depicted the dreamy, lover, working, educated and toiling rural woman.

The exhibition held by the Marsami Institute of Fine Art, which the plastic artist Nasreen Ali, the director of the institute, spoke to SANA correspondent, said that it was the result of a work that lasted for about six months, which took a lot of time and effort to choose each participant in human and social cases of women from her point of view and reflect them in an expressive painting.

Ali explained that the participants were amateurs and lovers of art and drawing who met at the institute to study it in an academic way and chose their path in plastic art, so the exhibition took the name of my way.

Souad Mohamed, head of the Tartous branch of the Union of Fine Artists, found this exhibition distinguished and creative because the participants in it are amateurs and not professionals, considering in a press statement that art is the language of beauty that gives joy to the recipient and has a great role in society and exhibitions are an important part of it.

Among the participants in the exhibition is Reham Khadouj, who participated in eight paintings that reflected optimism through her drawing of the dreamy girl and the rural woman, with other impressionist paintings in which lead and oil colors were used with their various overlappings, indicating that she joined the institute about a year and a half ago to learn the origins of drawing, its arts and schools after she learned a lot of crafts. Heritage handicraft.

As for Ghinwa Maghamis, a graduate of Arabic literature, who joined the institute four years ago, she presented seven paintings in which she embodied rural women in her folkloric dress, with other paintings that reflected the hope, anticipation and waiting that women live continuously, considering that the exhibition in general and painting in particular is an opportunity to break out of the routine and traditional situation that women experience. A woman lives it and says and translates what goes on inside her of ideas, images and situations.

Fatima Hussain