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The Road is in its Companions: Majd Kurdieh | Retrospective Exhibition | As Safir, Beirut

Past exhibition
6 - 26 June 2023
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Majd Kurdieh, Untitled, 2019

Majd Kurdieh

Untitled, 2019
Ink on paper
25 x 30 cm
9 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
Series: Hold on to the Flower
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I discovered four new recipes as I was looking into the works; a recipe for a burnt dish; a recipe for a tasteful life; a recipe for a seasoned universe; and a recipe for palatable bitter memories. It was an awakening; as if I bumped my head against a starry sky as I jumped out of bed; and it suddenly hit me; it was nostalgia; a yearning for the lovely smell of my granny’s cooking, as she hummed a song audible only to her wooden spoon.

 

The works are like old music videos; when they play on TV, even though they are in monocolor, we see them in bright colors emanating from the old flames of our memories, that we thought had faded.

 

In this adventure, Mr. Elephant who has a fish for a heart, engages in a long discussion with his heart, then he just lets go of the world and holds on to a flower.

 

The new collection features a new character; Mr. Mouse to whom nothing is impossible. Mr. Mouse raises the Sun Flag in the face of the storm. Fasooneh is depicted in multiple works; in one painting, she’s selling smiles in return for kisses; in another, she is facing up to Mr. Monster so that the Gang may hide in the shade of her hair or inside her eyes; and in one of the paintings, she’s dressed as a fireman, fighting the fire raging in Fasoon’s heart.

 

Fasoon plays multiple roles in the new collection; sometimes he’s a wizard, turning things into birds; a gypsy; a fisherman, waiting for the river to come his way; or a horseman, riding his horse and reciting classical Arabic poetry. The “Hold on to the Flower” collection includes ninety-nine stories, as for the hundredth, it’s yours to tell.

 

تفاجأتُ بأربع وصفاتٍ للطبخ وأنا أقلّبُ الأعمالَ، وصفة للطبخة المخروقة ووصفة وطبخ الحياة ووصفة تتبيل الكون ووصفة لأكل الذكريات المُرَّة، وكم
كان نائما فاستيقظ وقفز فارتطم رأسه بالنجومِ وهو يصيح: إنّه الحنين، وما الحنين إ لّّا رائحة مطبخ الجدّة وهي تغني بصوت خافت لا يسمعه سوى
ملعقتها الخشبية.
كالأغاني القديمة حين تظهر فجأة على شاشة التلفاز، رماديّةً تلوّنُها قلوبنا، رمادٌ تشعلهُ ذاكرتنا وترسم له خطوط نار.
في هذه المغامرة الأستاذ فيل الذي قلبه سمكة يتحاور طويلاً مع قلبه وفي آخر الأمر يفلت العالم ويتمسك بوردة.
وشخصيّة جديدة هي الأستار فأر الذي لا يعرف المستحيل يرفع راية السمش في وجه العاصفة.
فصعونة وهي تبيع الابتسامات بالقبلات أحياناً وأحياناً تقف في مواجهة الأستاذ وحش لتحتمي العصابة في ظلال شعرها وأحياناً تختبئُ داخل عينيها أو
ترتدي ثياب الإطفاء لتحارب النار في قلب فصعون.
فصعون وهو ساحرٌ يحوّلُ الأشياء لعصافير ثم يصير غجريّاً وصياد سمك ينتظر النهرَ ليمُرَّ بحانبه، وأحياناً يمتطي فرساً ويتغنّى ببيتٍ للمتنبي.
مجموعة تمسّك بالوردة تسعٌ وتسعون قصة. والقصة المئة هي قصتكم فاكتبوها

 

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