Bashar Alhroub | "Resurrection"

OPENING RECEPTION  |  24th July 2026 18:00 - 20:00 | RSVP

21 Gallery presents Resurrection, Bashar Alhroub’s latest body of work, curated by Fortunata Calabró. Created in the aftermath of the devastating events that have reshaped life in Palestine since October 2023, the exhibition brings together a new series of paintings and reflects a period in which artistic practice became both a means of witnessing and a form of endurance. It explores themes of loss, memory, and survival through a visual language that is both deeply personal and profoundly universal. These works explore the fragile possibility of renewal amid devastation.

Through a practice that moves between figuration and abstraction, intimacy and collective experience, Alhroub creates paintings that evoke the emotional and psychological landscapes shaped by conflict, displacement, and uncertainty.

A distinctive feature of the exhibition is Alhroub’s engagement with the visual logic of Tatreez, not as a decorative motif, but as a language of repetition, accumulation, and memory. Translated into painting through layers, textures, and gestures, its structures become a way of reflecting on fragmentation, endurance, and the act of rebuilding meaning after rupture. In Alhroub’s work, Tatreez operates as a trace — a rhythm of presence and absence — where personal and collective memories intersect within the painted surface.

The exhibition is characterised by a restrained palette dominated by red and black tones. These colours create an atmosphere that oscillates between mourning and resistance, fragility and strength, reflecting the tensions that define the contemporary Palestinian experience while remaining open to broader human concerns.

While rooted in the realities of Palestine, Resurrection speaks to universal questions about how individuals and communities endure periods of upheaval, how acts of creation continue in times of crisis, and how art can become a space for reflection, resilience, and renewal.

For Alhroub, Resurrection is not a triumphant return, but a fragile and ongoing act of survival. It emerges through the persistence of memory, the reconstruction of meaning after loss, and the everyday gestures through which individuals and communities continue to affirm life in the face of devastation.

Through this powerful new body of work, Alhroub invites viewers to engage not only with the realities of conflict, but also with the enduring human capacity to imagine hope, dignity, and transformation.