{"id":63220,"date":"2025-09-09T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=63220"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:03:20","slug":"last-chnace-monif-ajaj-shams","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chnace-monif-ajaj-shams\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Monif Ajaj: Shams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New ink drawings on paper and acrylic paintings on canvas from the French-based Syrian artist that offer viewers a journey through colour, symbolism, and contemplation. These are works that &#8220;reflect on the mystical power of nature, its geometry and order, and the existential questions it raises about human nature&#8221;, drawing inspiration from the fields of sunflowers that grow around Ajaj&#8217;s Dordogne home. The sunflower is in dialogue with a snake motif. \u2013 &#8220;while the sunflower follows light, embodying warmth and optimism, the snake [is] a signifier of temptation and betrayal; in other traditions, a symbol of renewal and healing. The works invite viewers to consider that within darkness lies the potential for renewal&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">New ink drawings on paper and acrylic paintings on canvas from the French-based Syrian artist that offer viewers a journey through colour, symbolism, and contemplation. These are works that &#8220;reflect on the mystical power of nature, its geometry and order, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chnace-monif-ajaj-shams\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Monif Ajaj: Shams\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-63220","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/63220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/63220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63220"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=63220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}