Some of the various names used to define painters’ artistic expression include realism, cubism, and abstraction. However, the Talaqi art exhibition in Madinah strives to bring together various artistic styles while exposing Saudi talent locally.
Eight of the 16 Saudi artists participating in the second edition of the event, which was just introduced at the Madinah Art Center, are publicly presenting their work for the first time. Each iteration of the exhibition presents a unique idea from a different group of artists.
Manar Ghazzawi is a co-founder of Talaqi and the Thalothya arts initiative. Ghazzawi was one of the exhibitors at the second edition of Talaqi. She defined her work as a story about a protracted feeling of loneliness that she had experienced in the past and the present as two different people, each solaced by the other.
In addition to the fact that every aspect of the artwork has psychological overtones, she called it “an embodiment of my being one of the persons who tend to isolate.”
Talaqi has partnered with Thalothya, a platform that showcases intellectual debates and trends in modern and contemporary art discourse. The co-founders saw that Madinah lacked any local artistic communities that prioritized dialogue.
“Most art communities that we have seen have people come into a location and paint or make artwork each on their own canvas,” Al-Hujaili said.
So, in order to mainstream such meetings in the Kingdom and support them in Saudi art culture, we developed Thalothya. “I would love to see Thalothya serve as a model village in every city around the Kingdom.”