Amid a totally destroyed neighborhood and the rubble of an abandoned house in Idlib, the young Syrian artist "Rami Abdul Haq" set up his first artistic opposition after the revolution. The exhibition includes 30 black white paintings that represent symbols of Syrian revolution from activists, military, civilians and detainees from different categories, and belonging to very simple techniques that touch the reality we live in Syria.
Abdul Haq, originally from Idlib, started painting in childhood and participated in three exhibitions, two of them, and a joint exhibition before the years of the war.
The young artist told Zaman Al-Wasl that the idea of his new exhibition came to him out of the necessity to present something useful to the saviors of the Syrian revolution and those who gave her everything they possessed even their souls, such as Abdul Basit Al-Sarout, Abdul Qadir Al-Saleh and Youssef Al-Jader Abu Furat and Yasser Al-Aboud Abu Ammar.
He said that the purpose of this exhibition was to offer thanks to these symbols, whether they are martyrs or detainees, some of them are alive like Qassem Jamous and Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sayasnah, and at the same time this exhibition is a document for those influential figures in the Syrian revolution.
Furthermore, Abdul Haq pointed out that he chose a ruined place, in the Kasih neighborhood, to display the paintings on what remained of the walls of their homes as a kind of simulation of reality through the place and the paintings displayed themselves.
Abdul Haq pointed out that the revolutionary figures are many in Syria and they cannot all be documented by a single project or exhibition, so he tried to take a simple part to convey a message to the world and to the regime itself that we are still continuing.
By Faris Rifai
Zaman Al Wasl
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