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    Sawsan Al Bahar

    Rehearsal time

    2024

    Single piece Signed Dated Titled

    Size

    41 x 25 cm
    16 x 9.84 in

    Year

    2024

    Medium

    Drawings , Paintings

    Reference

    7584f029

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    Acrylic and toner ink on canvas In these drawings, the artist constructs drawings of common spaces where events and experiences from her past took place. Some are references to the real world - drawn from old photographs. Others are mental constructions - floating between reality and fiction. Here, the artist is interested in the connection between architecture, sound, space and time. She creates these environments both digitally and physically, inspired by spaces that once contained her personal experiences. In an ongoing process that explores the relationships between physical and digital draftsmanship and representation, Sawsan finely constructs her drawings, interweaving hand drawing and digital information, mixing software, painting, printmaking, collage and various method of transfers. The drawings reveal an aspect of our relationship to the built environment, and the interaction between space and memory. Both architecture and virtual space become places where human activities are implied, but remain absent. In these staged and common settings, characters are neither real nor present, but the silence and absence recalls sounds and voices.

    Sawsan Al Bahar

    1990 Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic

    Sawsan Al Bahar was born in Damascus, in 1990, and raised in the UAE. She received a bachelor's in Architecture from the American University of Sharjah in 2013 and later studied academic drawing at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence. As an artist, architect and researcher, Sawsan takes the foundation of drawing and incorporates it into new forms, from installation to sound, bridging the three disciplines. Through her studio practice, Sawsan asks questions about the qualities of time and place as they occur to people in the Middle East, often centering on her personal family history, and delving into uncomfortable memories and narratives of displacement and loss. Sawsan was awarded the Massimiliano Galliani Prize for Drawing under 35 in 2022 and shortlisted for the Richard Mille Art Prize in 2023. She has held solo exhibitions “33 songs, 99 words”, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah (2023); “Knocking on Doors”, Casa Cavezzi, Montecchio Emilia (2023); and “Talaliya”, Firetti Contemporary (2022). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently Art Here (2023) at Louvre Abu Dhabi; Abu Dhabi Art (2023), “Breaking Boundaries”, Firetti Contemporary (2023), “Wood You Rather Be Happy?” Firetti Contemporary (2023), and “The Continuous Line”, Firetti Contemporary| Art Verona, (2022).
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    "Creating Meaningful and Sustainable Collections" Firetti Contemporary is a gallery where art and creative concepts align from the region and beyond, encouraging global engagement through creating meaningful and sustainable collections. By representing both established and emerging artists from all over the world, Firetti Contemporary strives to build a mu...

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