Things I Wish to Tell My Daughters: An Exhibition by Yara Hijazi
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Things I Wish to Tell My Daughters: An Exhibition by Yara Hijazi
Opening Saturday 14 November, 3:00 to 6:00 pm
CRAFTASTIC! Art Gallery, MASQ
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/eugfTWvzoqJrc27T6
Free entry, open to all
Things I Wish to Tell My Daughters begins with a letter. Written by the Cairo-based visual artist, muralist and graphic designer Yara Hijazi to her daughters, it offers words of love, affirmation and advice: “My daughters, never diminish yourselves to please everyone else. You deserve unconditional love, and you must give that love to yourselves before anyone else.”
She goes on to warn them against those who project their own insecurities onto others, writing: “Never fall into the trap of those who hate themselves, and make you believe that you are not worthy of love.”
The exhibition brings this deeply personal letter to life through ten acrylic paintings on canvas, including a diptych and a triptych. Moving between intimate depictions of mothers and children, abstract floral forms and expressive landscapes, the works translate the letter's tenderness and conviction into colour, form and composition.
At its heart, the exhibition reflects on the passing of knowledge from one generation to the next. A mother sharing with her daughters what life has taught her becomes an intimate act of inheritance: one in which love, self-worth and experience are passed down as forms of cultural and personal knowledge. It is this understanding of inheritance that situates the exhibition within MASQ's 2026–2027 season, Past in the Present, Present in the Past, which explores how inherited traditions and cultural knowledge are carried forward, reinterpreted and given new forms in the present.
The programme is supported by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
Come to the opening and bring along someone you have something to tell.
Opening Saturday 14 November, 3:00 to 6:00 pm
CRAFTASTIC! Art Gallery, MASQ
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/eugfTWvzoqJrc27T6
Free entry, open to all
Things I Wish to Tell My Daughters begins with a letter. Written by the Cairo-based visual artist, muralist and graphic designer Yara Hijazi to her daughters, it offers words of love, affirmation and advice: “My daughters, never diminish yourselves to please everyone else. You deserve unconditional love, and you must give that love to yourselves before anyone else.”
She goes on to warn them against those who project their own insecurities onto others, writing: “Never fall into the trap of those who hate themselves, and make you believe that you are not worthy of love.”
The exhibition brings this deeply personal letter to life through ten acrylic paintings on canvas, including a diptych and a triptych. Moving between intimate depictions of mothers and children, abstract floral forms and expressive landscapes, the works translate the letter's tenderness and conviction into colour, form and composition.
At its heart, the exhibition reflects on the passing of knowledge from one generation to the next. A mother sharing with her daughters what life has taught her becomes an intimate act of inheritance: one in which love, self-worth and experience are passed down as forms of cultural and personal knowledge. It is this understanding of inheritance that situates the exhibition within MASQ's 2026–2027 season, Past in the Present, Present in the Past, which explores how inherited traditions and cultural knowledge are carried forward, reinterpreted and given new forms in the present.
The programme is supported by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
Come to the opening and bring along someone you have something to tell.
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Where is it happening?
CRAFTASTIC Art Gallery, 3 حارة المنوفي, القاهرة, القاهرة, مصر, Cairo, Egypt
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Host or PublisherMASQ - Multicultural and Artistic Space at Qaitbey's
