Portes & Passages, Une Traversée Du Réel Et De L’imaginaire

Exhibition: “Doors & Passages – A Journey Between the Real and the Imaginary”
From September 19, 2024, 10:00 AM to January 5, 2025, 5:00 PM
Open every Tuesday to Sunday until January 5, 2025.

This exhibition, rooted in the vision, mission, and architecture of the Pavillon Nuhad Es-Said for Culture, presents a unique encounter between modern works from the Ministry of Culture’s collection, safeguarded by the BeMa, and contemporary pieces borrowed from private collections and artists. The exhibition highlights how these recently restored works—displayed for the first time—resonate across various artistic languages and weave a shared artistic geography.

Art and thought act as gateways that connect people, places, and times. They create passages that reflect the human experience and evoke powerful emotions. The exhibition invites visitors to explore four symbolic “passages”: Memory, Myths, Perception, and Territory. Through formal, historical, and conceptual links, the works bridge different worlds and explore the relationship between reality and imagination.

Memory

Memory examines our relationship with time and our ability to recall. Through various images, it expresses the forces that make things survive or fade, drawing attention to recurring elements—both recognized and forgotten—that shape visual culture and ever-evolving collective memory.

Myths

Myths provide an endless source of stories, populated by extraordinary forms. Powerfully transmitted through art and reinterpreted in diverse media, these timeless narratives transcend space and time, continuing to resonate and illuminate our identities.

Perception

Perception explores how we experience reality through a mix of mental images and sensations. Through their works, artists transcend lived experiences to place the magic of illusion at the heart of their practice, inviting us to pause and reflect.

Territory

Territory is shaped by natural elements that traverse our imagination. Water and earth here form a new geography that blurs the lines between dream and reality, between thought and matter.