Jory~

An Excerpt from Nizar Qabbani’s Would You Permit Me

Would you permit me  to teach my little one that religion is about good manners, good behaviour, good conduct, honesty and truthfulness, before I teach her with which foot to enter the bathroom or with which hand she should eat? 

Qabbani - Iranian Artist Golnaz Fathi

Fathi returns with her signature style of incomprehensible calligraphic text masquerading across large canvases as language. However, whereas last time areas of bright red, blue and yellow jostled for centre stage with the scatterbrain script, simple black and white now dominate the odd blot of scarlet. 

The show’s focal point is the Qabbani room; an enclosed homage to the contemporary poet and his prolific legacy celebrating Arab womanhood through unique and sensual verse. The space specially created for The Third Line is enveloped in stimuli, from the rose petals underfoot to an imposing tricolour painting echoing the Syrian flag to a blank canvas whose lettering has tumbled to the floor. Fathi’s talent is in expression through interpretation. Where there are no words, there is meaning through form and palette. She won’t spell it out. Literally. - Third Line Gallery

Second image found on this Flickr account, and it is a photograph of the floor of the gallery in which the Qabbani series was exhibited at The Third Line gallery in Dubai, UAE.