Hayaty Diaries Explores Yearning & Return in New London Exhibition
We explore the artists’ favourite pieces to understand the breadth of reencountering in ‘I Forgot What You Felt Like’.
In London, two Arab women - Christina Shoucair and Kinzy Diab - are on a mission to ensure the stories of this generation’s Arab women do not go untold. With a chosen medium for storytelling as art, the duo lead nomadic gallery/art collective Hayaty Diaries across the city, making ripples that extend throughout the global artistic community. Their impact is consistently driven by the stories of prolific Arab women creating art.
In their newest exhibition, ‘I Forgot What You Felt Like’, Hayaty Diaries invites four Arab women to ponder the concept of ‘return’ in their chosen mediums. Specifically, they provoke the concept of a re-encounter with something that is deeply familiar, but with which they have been disconnected with. In the words of Lebanese photographer Yasmina Hilal, “Objects and people carry the essence of a time and place.” In its specificity, this question evoked an expansive range of emotions in the artists in question, Yasmina Hilal, Zahra Holm, Raya Kassisieh and Huda Jamal.
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