Fann À Porter’s Printed Matter is a quietly powerful exploration of memory, identity, and resilience, unfolding across photography, mixed media, and sound. Running until 3 February 2026, the exhibition brings together four distinct artistic voices, El3attar Film Collective, Cynthia Zahar, Georges Yammine, and Mohammad Al Hawajri, each reconfiguring fragments of history and everyday life into striking, contemplative narratives.
[Cynthia Zahar, Shuhud, 2024. Chemically treated photography, book, and chemically treated metal. 38 x 26 x 5 cm]
El3attar Film Collective’s Faces of Solidarity series anchors the exhibition with its deeply human portraits of Palestinians. Through traditional poses and attire, the collective revives cultural dignity and layered histories of resistance, offering viewers both intimacy and reverence. Cynthia Zahar’s Shuhud builds on this dialogue of remembrance: she combines travel documents, photographs, and personal objects into layered constructs that blur the line between private memory and collective history, inviting reflection on the traces left behind by human movement and time.
Georges Yammine takes a quieter, almost meditative route. His macrophotographs of stray bullets, collected since childhood, transform remnants of conflict into visual elegies, silent narrators that speak to change, passage, and survival. In contrast, Mohammad Al Hawajri employs irony and wit to tackle resilience in Palestinian life. His cactus-centered photography in works like The Heart of Gaza turns familiar landscapes into allegories of patience, persistence, and the humor that often accompanies endurance under adversity.
[Printed Matter (installation view). Fann À Porter, Dubai, 2025-2026. Courtesy of the gallery.]
Anchoring these visual narratives is Aoun’s interactive soundscape. Visitors are invited to contribute their own memories into the generative composition, creating a collective sonic tapestry that mirrors the exhibition’s themes of remembrance, continuity, and the intimate resonance of lived experience.
[Mohammad Hawajri, The Heart of Gaza, 2010. (Printed in 2024), Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper. 70 x 100 cm. Edition of 10 + 2 AP.]
Printed Matter is more than a display of images; it is an immersive meditation on the human impulse to remember, archive, and transform everyday fragments into testimony. By intertwining photography, objects, and participatory sound, Fann À Porter offers an exhibition that lingers, both in sight and in memory, long after the gallery doors close.