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In May all tears be followed by a smile, Róza El-Hassan brings together past and present in a deeply personal meditation on grief, responsibility, and the quiet endurance of hope. The exhibition begins with a return to one of her earliest works, Mourning (After 9/11), a delicate drawing of a figure whose eyes are obscured by stonelike teardrops. This early gesture of sorrow becomes the conceptual spark for the exhibition’s new central series, Tearhead: a group of raw, wooden, almost art brut-like sculptural heads that gaze toward one another in silent mourning, echoing both shared loss and fragile solidarity.
Throughout the gallery, El-Hassan interweaves media with her signature sensitivity, new small glazed ceramic works appear modest in scale, yet offer powerful reflections on the fractured world we inhabit. They suggest not only the persistence of beauty, but also the resilience of care.
At the entrance, Collective Sin, a black, seven-figure sculpture acts as a...More
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In May all tears be followed by a smile, Róza El-Hassan brings together past and present in a deeply personal meditation on grief, responsibility, and the quiet endurance of hope. The exhibition begins with a return to one of her earliest works, Mourning (After 9/11), a delicate drawing of a figure whose eyes are obscured by stonelike teardrops. This early gesture of sorrow becomes the conceptual spark for the exhibition’s new central series, Tearhead: a group of raw, wooden, almost art brut-like sculptural heads that gaze toward one another in silent mourning, echoing both shared loss and fragile solidarity.
Throughout the gallery, El-Hassan interweaves media with her signature sensitivity, new small glazed ceramic works appear modest in scale, yet offer powerful reflections on the fractured world we inhabit. They suggest not only the persistence of beauty, but also the resilience of care.
At the entrance, Collective Sin, a black, seven-figure sculpture acts as a...More
