After the Fall of Baghdad in 2003, Iraqi Artist Elaf Adel al-Alousi left her country full of emotions that she strongly wanted to express with painting. Running until January 7, her first exhibition dubbed “Dreamers of the Other Time” currently held at the Naila Art Gallery, Riyadh, highlights Elaf’s artistic view of migrant women who dream of love and peace.
The exhibition, which centers around women, reflects the repercussions of what happened to many struggling Iraqis who migrated but kept their country in their heart. Al-Alousi assembled all these emotions in paintings that document events that exhausted the Iraqi conscience over two decades.
