Portals in Flux Artist in Residence 9 Exhibition

Portals in Flux Artist in Residence 9 Exhibition

Exhibition

Portals in Flux brings together the work of fifteen Qatar-based artists whose practices navigate memory, materiality, and imagined worlds.

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Developed during a nine-month residency, these works reflect a mutual interest in environments both near and distant. Some works emerge from desert landscapes or domestic rituals, while others are shaped from cosmic observation and personal memory.

More than a presentation of completed works, Portals in Flux captures a living archive of process, inquiry, and evolution. It reveals the growth of artistic practices shaped by risk, reflection, and material discovery. Here, art becomes a mode of passage—guiding us into spaces where perception expands, and presence grow.

This experience introduces metaphorical portals, gateways that stretch and bend our sense of time and space. These portals carry us between personal, social, and cultural narratives, connecting the physical world we inhabit, with the imagined realms beyond it. Some works reflect what is close: the texture of sand, the sight of plants, and the longing for home. Other installations look beyond distant skies, tracing the paths of planets and the shimmer of stars, where artists seek meaning in what lies beyond our world. In this space, the tangible meets the unseen, where ideas and experimentation converge to unlock new fields of possibility.

The exhibition encourages visitors to move freely through the space, following their own paths between the works. Each artwork acts as a doorway—leading to different ways of experiencing, feeling, or remembering. As viewers move between each artwork, a constellation of worlds unfolds, distinct yet interconnected.