Asma Sami: What Remains Familiar

The exhibition presents a new body of work by Asma Sami, grounded in Qatari culture, traditions, and everyday life. Working across acrylic, charcoal, watercolor, and graphite, Sami draws from garments, objects, and customs associated with both daily use and moments of celebration. Women’s accessories and men’s everyday dress appear through still-life compositions that suggest presence through absence, while recurring images of Qatari currency connect material value to cultural memory. Through experimental approaches to surface, scale, and framing, the works position heritage as something lived, carried forward, and continually reshaped within contemporary Qatari visual culture.