Our Paths to Damascus

© Anas Alkharboutli

From October 7 to November 9

Our Paths to Damascus

Curators: Abdulmonam Eassa and Ghaith Abdul Ahad

 All it takes is a few words expressing your opinion next to your painting or photograph, and you’ll find yourself hunted, exiled, or threatened with assassination – and, at best, barred from working. For more than five decades, any ideas that ran counter to the ideology of the al-Assad regime were forbidden; this was a system founded on tyranny, dictatorship, violence, torture, and corruption.

From the very first moments of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Syrians chose to voice their dreams and demands in countless ways, including photography and the visual arts. Over the years of war, this gave rise to a singular environment for documentation, reportage, and expression, but it cost dozens of photographers and activists their lives and forced hundreds into exile.

On December 8, 2024, the Assad regime fell, and Syria’s doors swung open once more, to foreign journalists and photographers, and to Syrians who’d been living abroad for decades.

This exhibition brings together the work of Syrian photographers and visual artists who are now able to create again in their homeland. They bring stories, images and visions that have been silenced for fifty-four years of tyranny.

Photographs: Ammar Albiek, Albaraa Haddad, Anas Alkharboutli, Fouad Hallak, Hussien Haddad, Guevara Namer, Alaa Hassan, Sameer Al-Doumy, Mosab Al-Nomire, Anas Ali, Ali Haj Suleiman, Mohamad Daboul, Omar Haj Kadour, Ghaith Alsayed.

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Espace d’art actuel Le Radar
24, rue des Cuisiniers

Open Wednesday through Sunday 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm and Saturday 2 pm to 7 pm.

Exceptionally open Tuesday October 7th 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm and Saturday October 11th 10 am to 12 pm and 1pm to 5 pm.
Free Admission

 

This exhibition was created in association with: