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PROTECTION

Opening:
08 Mar 2022, 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
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Mar 2022
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May 2022
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Through painting, drawing and installation Faika Al Hassan explores the traditional use of frankincense in Bahraini homes and families. Thanks to its aromatic and antiseptic properties, frankincense was used in perfumes and to deodorize homes and domestic linens. It was believed to protect the home from disease and evil spirits.

If the sea had a memory, his memory would be rain… a voice far from life has survived, for he is as all those who leave for the sea one day in the life of men, and return: body sounds, as shapes of music and song, then the sea carries their possessions to land, and says: These are signals of survival.

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