Last days to catch the Maha Ahmed show that ends Saturday 30th December.

The genesis of this series was the Persian poem, ‘The Conference of The Birds’ by Farid ud-Din Attar, where the birds of the world gather in search of the Simorgh, the benevolent and mythical character in Persian literature. Their journey through the seven valleys is arduous and revelatory—at the end only thirty birds remain to discover that they themselves are the Simorgh; what they were searching for exists within their own reflection, their collective self. ⁣
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⁣For Ahmed, this poem ignited the desire to initially create a narrative based series, but just like the birds, the artist’s journey through this allegory aided her in a process of discovery; making the works a more personal rumination of identity, of cultural collisions and of society vs self. @mahaahmedqureshi @galerie_isa