In 2016, Lulu M, Masoud Rashid Al-Buloshi and Mubarak Al-Malik, three emerging artists came together in a shared exhibition at al markhiya gallery, each with their own distinct visual language, personal inquiry, and evolving artistic voice. A decade later, they return — not to repeat a beginning, but to reflect on the distance traveled since.
Between Then and Now marks ten years of artistic development shaped by experimentation, persistence, and personal transformation. Though connected by a common point of departure, each artist has followed a markedly different trajectory, moving through various media, and exploring memory, abstraction, materiality, and identity from their own distinct perspectives.
Reuniting after ten years, Between Then and Now offers more than a celebration of the passing of time. It becomes a meditation on continuity: about what it means for artists to grow alongside one another while moving independently through time. In returning to the same gallery after a decade, the artists also revisit to an earlier version of themselves — carrying with them the traces, fractures, discoveries, and convictions accumulated along the way.
