Continuation of the exhibition “Once upon a time, Aleppo” in Al-Hatab “Firewood” Square

The exhibition “Once Upon a Time, Aleppo”, organized by the Ministry of Culture, continues in Al-Hatab “Firewood” Square in the old city of Aleppo, and includes 29 artworks with the participation of a group of young artists from different governorates.

Young artists worked on coloring and decorating the square, through the artworks they presented, to translate ten years of the terrorist war on Syria, which left traces and destruction, in the hope of its demise through art.

The exhibited works are a new type of installation art in a space outside the classical frameworks of art, which received interaction on a wide scale by the audience.

The media coordinator of the exhibition, artist Hammoud Radwan, explained that the displayed works are flocks of white pigeons, in which each participating artist symbolizes a specific topic. He pointed out the importance of holding the exhibition within Al-Hatab Square, which was subjected to great destruction during the war, and turned from a place full of life to an abandoned place, and so it must be revived through art, indicating that the exhibition will continue until the fifth of November.

Among the artists participating in the exhibition from the governorate of Damascus, the young artist, Dana Salama, participated in a work entitled “Who am I”, which is a roofed empty space and in the middle of which there is a crow surrounded by a flock of pigeons hanging from the ceiling at different heights while the shadows of the pigeons are reflected on the ceiling. The crow remained alone and its shadow reflected on the ground, in addition to the sound element that shows the sound of the crow ringing alone among the group of pigeon sounds, symbolized by a white board with a black dot in the middle,

The young artist, Emile Aflaq, participated in a work that symbolizes the difficult years of siege, while the young artist, Rita Halabi, from Lattakia Governorate, participated in an artwork that symbolizes the state of psychological death during the war.