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LoginAl Markhiya Gallery to Present Lines of Belonging at Fire Station: Artist in Residence on Tuesday
Doha, June 13 (QNA) - Al Markhiya Gallery at Fire Station: Artist in Residence, in collaboration with the Dalloul Artist Collective, announced today the launch of an art exhibition titled 'Lines of Belonging', featuring Qatari artist Salman Al Malek and Lebanese artist Fawzi Baalbaki. The exhibition will open on Tuesday at 6:30 pm at the Fire Station: Artist in Residence and will run until August 16.
Bringing together two distinguished voices in contemporary Arab painting, Lines of Belonging explores the intersections of memory, identity, and lived experience. Through their distinctive artistic practices, the exhibition highlights a shared commitment to the power of art as a bridge between personal narratives, cultural heritage, and universal human emotion.
The exhibition's paintings and artworks explore the dynamic relationship between form, line, and color, offering the public a rich visual experience that opens up broad horizons and multiple interpretations. This reflects the richness and uniqueness of both experiences within the world of contemporary art, making the exhibition a special opportunity for art enthusiasts to discover new creative features that blend artistic heritage with profound human experience.
Salman Al Malek approaches painting as both cultural memory and contemporary proposition. His practice negotiates the relationship between authenticity and modernity, giving rise to works that are deeply rooted in social consciousness while remaining open to formal experimentation. For Al Malek, art must hold a purpose — even when expressed through abstraction or colour.
For Fawzi Baalbaki, the painted line is an act of emotional survival. His figures, animals, and intertwined forms emerge through simplified gestures that move between abstraction and recognition, inviting the viewer to complete what the line leaves open. His compositions hold tenderness, solitude, companionship, and fleeting moments of joy within surfaces of deliberate lightness.
Together, their works offer something increasingly rare: a space where form still carries feeling, abstraction remains human, and art continues to serve as a bridge between memory, place, and shared experience. (QNA)
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