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Rupture Into Light
A Solo Exhibition by Marwan Sahmarani Rupture Into Light, now open to the public at The Farjam Foundation, brings together a selection of major paintings and studies by Lebanese artist Marwan Sahmarani, offering a powerful meditation on rupture, memory, and the fragile processes of renewal. Drawn from The Farjam Collection and thoughtfully shaped through the…
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Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes
Current Exhibition | The Farjam Foundation, DIFC, Dubai On View: April 15, 2025 – October 15 2025 The Farjam Foundation is proud to present Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes, an exhibition exploring how women have been represented—and have represented themselves—across the evolving visual landscape of the Middle East. Spanning over eight decades of artistic…
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“Arab Presences: Modern Art and Decolonization Paris 1908–1988” at Abu Dhabi Art Fair – Sponsored by The Farjam Foundation
The Farjam Foundation is honored to present the exhibition “Arab Presences: Modern Art and Decolonization Paris 1908–1988 – Farjam Collection Close-Up,” curated by esteemed art historian and curator Morad Montazami. This exhibition builds upon a previous iteration co-curated by Montazami and Madeleine de Colnet at the Paris Museum of Modern Art (April 3–August 25, 2024).…
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Echoes of Infinite: Poetry’s Visual Symphony
A Timeless Tale Reimagined: The Visual History of Shahnameh in Art Join us at The Farjam Collection for “Echoes of Infinite: Poetry’s Visual Symphony”, an enthralling exhibition curated by Marjan Farjam, that delves into the visual narrative of the Shahnameh, an epic masterpiece by Ferdowsi, across the ages. This exhibition offers a panoramic view of…
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Latif Al Ani “Documenting the unforgettable and the forgotten”
November 15, 2022 – February 2024 Curated by Morad Montazami Latif Al Ani (1932-2021) known as the “father of Iraqi photography” was the first to capture extensively the cosmopolitan life of Iraq in the 1950s-1970s. His black and white images represent a unique visual memory of the country during its golden age and a major…
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The Sea Was Far Away and the sky further
March 2022-November 2022 What can we learn from nature about the essence of being? Dubai-based, multidisciplinary visual artist, Shagayeq Arabi, sets out to question the flow of existence through evocative natural forms made with locally found objects, cast in their natural environment, to create a context of their own, the context embedding itself within the…
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Untitled – A selection of Artworks from The Farjam Collection
March 2021 – March 2022
