Ayyam Art Center will proudly present A Real Dream, the solo show of Syrian artist Safwan Dahoul. Featuring several new paintings, this forthcoming exhibition will highlight a recent breakthrough in the artist’s Dream series, a large body of work that he began in 1982.
Surrounding the gradual transformation of the artist’s reoccurring subject matter, which often takes on the form of a despairing woman in isolated interiors, this series has recently undergone a formative change. Emerging from the metaphorical suffocation of cramped quarters, Dahoul’s heroine has begun to overcome the very space that has defined her confinement for nearly thirty years. As the dimensions of the artist’s canvases have grown, she too has taken on a greater presence amidst the architectural details that mark the spatial properties of the each composition.
