Mozaico
MAJARRAH
MOSAIC OF VISION
VOICES ACROSS BORDERS
THREE ARTISTS, THREE COUNTRIES ONE COLLECTIVE VISION
16-18 ОСТOBER 2026
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY 7:00 PM
MAJARRAH
SHEIKH ZAYED
Jafer Taoun (b. 1963, Basra, Iraq) is a painter whose distinctive visual language transforms memory, place, and lived experience into charged fields of colour, gesture, and form.

Trained in Baghdad and based in Sweden, Taoun works between abstraction and figuration, using layered surfaces, expressive line, and recurring fragments of houses, faces, birds, trees, and vessels. Familiar forms emerge, dissolve, and reappear, suspended between recognition and imagination.

Rooted in Iraqi memory and shaped by migration, his paintings are less depictions of specific places than traces of what those places leave behind. Through colour, material, and gesture, Taoun turns memory into an evolving visual experience—where place becomes sensation, and memory becomes form.

Khalid Abdullah Alshatti has been active in the contemporary Kuwaiti art scene since the early 1990s. A graduate of Kuwait University, he has held academic and educational roles in art and design, while contributing extensively to the development of visual arts through teaching, judging, and cultural programming.

His practice has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Kuwait and internationally. His work has also received recognition through several awards and distinctions, including the Kuwait Contemporary Art Festival and international craft and visual arts biennales.

Alongside his artistic practice, Alshatti has played an active role in organizing and supporting cultural initiatives, reflecting a sustained commitment to the growth and exchange of contemporary art in the region

Nahar Marzouk is a Saudi visual artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of abstraction, Arabic letterforms, and cultural memory.

Drawing from the visual language of heritage, architecture, and historic cities, Marzouk transforms the Arabic letter into a contemporary form—fragmented, layered, and reimagined within geometric compositions. His works move between recognition and abstraction, tracing the character of place while preserving its sense of history and identity.

Through a refined dialogue between calligraphy, structure, and colour, Marzouk creates a visual language that connects the inherited with the contemporary, allowing cultural memory to emerge in an abstract and distinctly personal form.

His work has been presented through solo exhibitions and international exhibitions and symposiums across the Arab world, Europe, and Japan.