As I Lay Between Two Seas: Fire Station : Garage Gallery, Mohammed Bin Thani St., Qatar
As I Lay Between Two Seas offers a poetic exploration of belonging, identity, and home. Featuring works by twenty-five artists from the Arab world and its diasporas, the exhibition examines these themes not as fixed states but as ongoing productions informed by ruptures, fragments, and spectral traces. Drawing from Stuart Hall’s understanding of “identity as a 'production' which is never complete, always in process”, the exhibition unfolds the multitudes contained in the in-between spaces of living, existing, remembering, and resisting.
Borrowed from a photographic series by Ali Al Shehabi, the title provides the anchor of a marine metaphor that speaks to the fluidity of selfhood. Like the sea, identity is never still; it moves, recedes, surges, and reshapes itself in relation to its shores. The space between two seas becomes a threshold–at once abstract and tangible–where belonging is not granted, but continually negotiated.
Participating Artists:
Abdulrahman Albaker, Afraa Ahmed, Ali Al Shehabi, Ali Zaaray, Farah Al Qasimi, Hicham Gardaf, Louisa Babari, Manal AlDowayan, Maya Ines, Moath Alofi, Mohammed Nammor, Moustapha Azeroual, Moustapha Lamrabat, Nada Harib, Nadia Bseiso, Nadia Kaabi - Linke, Reem Falaknaz, Rehaf Fawaz Al Batniji, Sara Naim, Taysir Batniji, Thana Faroq, Yassine Ismaili, Youssef Nabil, Ziad Antar.