Kuwaiti artist Ghadah Al Kandari is set to present her first solo exhibition in Bahrain, bringing to life deeply personal emotions of love and loss.
Titled ‘Maryam’s Sons’, the expo will be inaugurated tomorrow at Folk Art Space in Sehla. It features a collection of abstract and figurative works that reflect the artist’s emotional and creative journey.
The mass communication specialist and mother-of-three lost her father last month – just months after her grandson was born in September 2025. Both her grandmother and daughter-in-law are named Maryam, and hence the title.
Learning of her father’s failing health, followed soon after by the news that she was to become a grandmother, placed the artist on a profound emotional rollercoaster. “My life teetered between glee and despair, hope and desperation and sadness and joy,” Ms Al Kandari told the GDN.
“One would be born, the other would die. For almost a year, the two events unfolded in tandem and the parallels between them were uncanny. It was emotional to see one life being created and the other one leaving. They existed in the same world for 62 days,” she added.
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