Al Burda Exhibition: The Shape of Meaning

As a complement to the Nja Mahdaoui retrospective in the main gallery at BFAF, this exhibition presents loans from the Ministry of Culture’s Al Burda exhibitions from 2008 to 2023. Al Burda was an annual exhibition where contemporary artists engaged with the cultural and semantic power of the written word while experimenting with form and medium; this exhibition provides a dialogue between calligraphy as abstract form and as linguistic tradition, showing how artists today both inherit and reinvent tradition and highlighting how they can be both custodians and innovators

The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of calligraphy workshops and educational events highlighting the history of Arabic script.

To 25 January.

Above: Taj AlSer Hassan (2016)