A war shrapnel tops the first solo exhibition of sculptor Hisham Al-Maleeh

Damascus (ST): On the morning of Thursday, February 21, 2013, while the people of Damascus were heading to their work and schools, a terrorist suicide bombing occurred in the neighborhood of Mazraa, resulting in the death of dozens of children and civilians.

The traces of this heinous crime remain through the memory of the martyrs and the shrapnel of the bomb that exploded and claimed the lives of innocent people to remind us of what this crazy war did to us.

Sculptor Hisham Al-Maleeh picked up the shrapnel from Al-Thawra Street days after the bombing, and kept it to be the subject of his first solo exhibition, which will open in Zawaya Gallery tomorrow – an opportunity to present it to the public and through which he recalls the memory of that painful day.

He said that we remember this crime in the form of a work of art, not to be sad and depressed, but to be more determined to protect and preserve our country, so that these tragedies are not repeated and let’s move on the path of life away from despair.

Al-Maleeh was at his workplace at the Mumtaz Al-Bahra Center for Fine Arts when that terrorist bombing occurred, and he was horrified to see young children with blood on their clothes running away crying and frightened. 

K.Q.