Homecoming Gallery is proud to present Nothing Ends Here, a group exhibition curated by AAZ Art Advisory, bringing together seven artists whose practices have been shaped by – and continue to evolve amid – the shifting realities of Lebanon.
This exhibition grew from our relationship with AAZ’s Amar A. Zahr and Nathalie Ackawi, founders of the former Beirut Art Residency, which they ran together for over a decade. As the news from Lebanon grew darker, we found ourselves wondering how they were, and how their extended family of artists was holding up. Those conversations became an urgency to act.
Spanning two generations, the artists in this exhibition have each had a different relationship to Lebanon – shaped by different historical moments, from the Civil War and its long aftermath to more recent waves of political, economic, and personal upheaval. Their practices differ greatly: in medium, in approach, in what they choose to hold and what they let go. But they share something essential – an attentiveness to memory, to transformation, to fragility and its opposite. To the fact that things continue.
Rather than offering a single story of Lebanon, Nothing Ends Here makes space for the full diversity of how artists navigate uncertainty and change. Moving between figuration and abstraction, photography and painting, landscape and interiority, these works ask questions about place, perception, materiality, and what it means to keep making. Some draw on personal histories and collective memory; others work in gesture, atmosphere, and the traces that time leaves behind.
The title refuses closure. It speaks to continuation – to artistic practice as an act of return, revision, and persistence. We are deeply honoured to give these voices a home in Amsterdam.
Together, they remind us that creativity is not only a response to uncertainty, but a means of navigating it.
This exhibition is also an invitation, to ourselves and to the wider art world. Even exceptional practices can, at times, remain outside our immediate field of vision. Without AAZ, we may never have had the opportunity to engage so closely with these artists and their work, and that itself is the point. Conflict creates distance, and the art world is not immune. We are still learning how to remain open: to look beyond our familiar circles, to make space for different perspectives, and to allow meaningful encounters to lead us somewhere unexpected.
Artists:
TAMARA AL-SAMERRAEI
ZIAD ANTAR
TAGREED DARGHOUTH
CHAFA GHADDAR
YASMINA HILAL
HATEM IMAM
SALAH MISSI
Press release from Homecoming Gallery and AAZ Art Advisory
Image: Tagreed Darghouth. From The Cedars of Lebanon series. 2024. Image courtesy of Homecoming Gallery
