Until 1 September 2025, Fire Station in Doha is hosting Printed Nostalgia, a group exhibition curated by Saida Alkhulaifi and Fatima AlZaini. The show emerged from an international open call that received 322 submissions, from which 98 creatives were selected. Their artworks collectively explore the many meanings of nostalgia and offer a wide array of voices, styles, and cultural references.
Through printed media, the exhibition navigates personal and collective memory and touches on themes such as architecture, migration, everyday life, and cultural heritage. The works on display span a variety of techniques, including digital illustration, photography, painting, collage, and text. The show blends the digital and physical to evoke intimate moments and shared experiences.
Among the featured creatives is Cairo-based artist, photographer, and anthropologist Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin, who focuses on space, time, and memory. His limited-edition prints revisit layers of urban architecture, interweaving stories with form and texture. Meanwhile, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer Ghayyan Al Amine often documents diasporic identity and emotional landscapes.
Visitors can also see works by architect and fashion designer Abeer Awad Ahmad Khader, who transforms photographs into re-interpretations of urban memory, and Moroccan-born artist and designer Smahane Drissi, who creates layered compositions reflecting migration, cultural hybridity, and belonging.
Abeer Awad Ahmad Khader presents an untitled photograph, captured in 2010 and re-edited in 2025, that merges architectural trace, personal archive, and editorial gesture. Smahane Drissi contributes A Morning in Morocco, a digital painting inspired by the sensory textures and sounds of her childhood. On display is also a work by artist and doctor Javeria Nabahat Amin, whose practice brings together medicine, visual art, poetry, and technology.
Printed Nostalgia concludes with a quiet, contemplative space. Here, visitors are encouraged to pause and reconnect with their own stories, echoing the enduring power of printed matter as vessels of remembrance.
To get more information about Printed Nostalgia, please go to the official web page of the exhibition.
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