Branches

Branches is a collective art exhibition that I curated and produced at Manor House to celebrate Refugee Week 2019. The work presented in this exhibition is a conversation between diverse art mediums and multicultural artists. It combines poetry, oil painting, silkscreen, lithography, collage pieces, miniature design, printing, experimental photography, calligraphy, mixed media artwork and participatory video installation.  

This collective work reflects on many possible metaphors for branches, and how they relate to us as humans, our roots, identities, and vital connection with the light. I pursued this theme and invited these artists to participate, in order to create a space that brought us as artists and poets together to reflect, discuss, and grow. It was a space for us to meet, interact and get inspired, and a space for the public to get to discover our ideas and how various art mediums can have a conversation and reflect differently on the same subject. Most of what we presented was new work created for this exhibition and made public here for the first time.

Participant Artists: Rayane Chami, Shorsh Saleh, Arek Golosz, Daniela Nofal, Laila Sumpton, Abdulla Jassem, Mathilda Della Torre, Soulaf Abbas, and Belén L.Yáñez. In addition, the exhibition hosted art pieces (prints and collages) created by Play for Progress young people.