Damascus-SANA
40 paintings that mixed Arabic poetry with the plastic art of the young plastic artist, Reham Al-Hayek, in which she tried to evoke the commentaries and Arab poetry since pre-Islamic, Islamic and Andalusian times, ancient vocabulary and the environment in which our ancestors lived through her works.
In the paintings of her exhibition held by the National Center for Visual Arts, Riham used cloth, gauze, burlap and various materials, maintaining the brown and yellow color to denote antiquity and heritage.
Hayek said in a statement to SANA that she wanted, through her exhibition, to mix literature with art, based on her belief that poetry contains a huge amount of art, and that our old poets wrote their poems to express the feelings that lie within them, and she wanted to express through her paintings her vision of those feelings.
Ahmed Rasho, a plastic artist, saw that these works, which are occupied with different materials and with collage, express the state of the ancient and seem as if they were part of ancient manuscripts, and many added that he linked them to an expressive notice in a new way.
Jata Shura, an architecture student, saw that the paintings suggest heritage and express the Arabs in a beautiful way and suggest the ancient Arab and Damascene environment, pointing to the importance of awakening interest in heritage for our generation and future generations because it relates to identity and introduces us to the products and environment of ancestors.
Bilal Ahmad