Stranger to Ourselves: A solo exhibition by Qatari artist Mariam Al Tajer

There is a paradox at the heart of human experience: we spend our entire lives within ourselves, yet the self remains, in many ways, unknowable. It cannot be fully mapped or resolved, for it is continually reshaped by memory, relationships, time, and the countless experiences that quietly alter our ways of seeing and being.

This exhibition approaches the inner world as something fluid rather than fixed. Through abstract Arabic calligraphy, each work offers a meditation on the complexity of the self—not as an object to be understood, but as a landscape that is perpetually unfolding.