Although the artists have worked across different disciplines and geographies, they share a deep commitment to abstraction rooted in place, material, and cultural memory.
Engaging with the Qatari landscape for decades, Ahmad's paintings capture its unique light and textures, weaving these into a calligraphic visual language that is at once intimate and expressive. El Mestikawy's sculptures present a quieter inquiry into geometry and form, finding in structure and material a type of poetic architecture. Together, their compositions draw on the natural world, histories, and languages that lie at the heart of their practices.
Yousef Ahmad is a pioneering Qatari artist born in 1955, known for abstract works merging Arabic calligraphy with desert-inspired textures. His works are in major international collections including the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
