The role of Al Qasimi opens the Moroccan version of the exhibition "Al Kharirif with a new vision" In Rabat

Rabat, April 19 / WAM / Sheikha Badour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Sharjah Book Authority, opened the Moroccan version of the exhibition “Al -Khrakarif with a new vision”, which is organized by the UAE Council for Advisors Books in cooperation with the Moroccan Council of Books of Advisers, and the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco, as part of the Cultural Program of Sharjah as a guest of honor of the 30th session of the International Publishing and Book Fair in Rabat.

The exhibition brings together five Emirati artists and five Moroccan artists, each of them re -imagined popular tales from the culture of the other in a contemporary visual style, mixing heritage and modernity, and gives the new generation the opportunity to get to know popular personalities and myths that formed part of the cultural identity in both the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Morocco.

This creative artistic exchange came the fruit of an in -depth research by the participants in the vocabulary of the popular stories of the other country, to represent every work of a new personal reading of a inherited story from one generation to another.

Marwa Al -Aqroubi, President of the UAE Council for Advisors, said that the council has been working since the launch of the project on the sidelines of the Bologna Exhibition of the Children’s Book in 2022, provided that the concept exceeds the exhibition’s limits, to become an integrated cultural movement that travels with popular tales from one country to another, and that the Moroccan version confirms the existence of an increasing global passion for re -discovering the popular heritage through art.

This is the sixth edition of the mobile art project, after copies previously organized in Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Greece and Russia, where the exhibition succeeded in extending artistic and cultural bridges between peoples, by re -presenting popular stories with a new vision that celebrates the difference and human similarities at the same time.

Each of the project stations formed a space for the interaction and joint learning between artists and the public, as it exceeded the exhibition as a visual event, to become an open platform for discussion on common human values, and the various ways in which societies express their fears, dreams and memories, which makes it a contemporary model of creative cultural exchange crosses.

The Moroccan version of the exhibition included innovative artworks presented by ten artists from the Emirates and Morocco, each of them re -drawn a heritage story belonging to the culture of the other country, in a contemporary visual style that reflects his personal spirit and artistic perceptions. From “Mother of the Ghoula”, while Khaled Al -Khawar chose the story of “Bint Al -Darraz”, who tells about a blind girl who supported her father and faces an unexpected destiny after she was lost in the woods and begins a new life that ends with restoring her eyesight and marrying the old woman’s son who gave her.

Reem Ahmed, the legend of “Aisha Kandisha”, which is one of the most present figures in the Moroccan heritage, and combined mystery, myth and resistance, in which the heroine appears as an object that combines sedition and danger, where contradictory accounts are listed by either resistance to the occupation or a malicious spirit that hunts men at night.

Dalal Al -Jabri presented her vision of the story of “Hina and Al -Ghoul”, which revolves around a girl facing the ghoul, and is forced to disguise, hide and escape, before she saved her fiancé with the help of magic birds. Al -Nassar Al -Nassar reviewed the story of the “monster of the forest”, which is a short but intense story in its symbols, and tells about a boy who escapes a fierce monster thanks to his intelligence, and turns the danger to Nasr.

As for the Moroccan artists, they were inspired by their works of the most famous Emirati “Al -Khararif”, and Mohamed Hayati presented a visual vision of the “important” story of the “Important”, that the superstitious creature that embodies excessive greed and irreplaceable hunger. Sofia chose a scientific, the story of “Umm Rakhish”, a huge and frightening bird, which is considered a bad omen, who lives on the outskirts of cities and attacks the dead and the weak. Hind Khuraifi re -formed the image of “Bo Sulven”, the object that resembles a wolf with a long neck and red eyes, and represents the fear of the unknown and the dark. It presented the work in a bold visual style that mixes childhood and visual fantasy, to re -define the relationship between the child and the monstering place.

Lamia Hamidot presented an artwork that was inspired by the story of “Jen al -Raqs”, the Sharjah cannon, which only works with music and joy, and succeeded in converting this metal being into a vibrant figure, reflecting the depth of the relationship between folklore, rhythm and celebration. Mikhail Al -Fathi expressed his own style of “Marsi Jinn”, a being who appears during the day and raises terror in the hearts of children, and worked on a color and mobility combination that reflects the shock of the first meeting with the unknown, and simulates the psychological atmosphere of the story.

The artistic methods varied between digital drawing, illustration, and the art of posters, as the works reflected a rich visual harmony that combined the depth of the inheritance and the vitality of imagination, providing a new narration of popular tales in a manner understood by the digital generation and interacts with it. Artists invested cultural symbols and legendary elements in tales to create vibrant paintings, using colors, blocks and lines as a parallel narrative tools for the word, which allowed the viewer to enter into the worlds of stories without the need for an explanation or translation.

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