Roots & Horizons: T/Racing Time marks Iraqi artist Maysaloun Faraj’s first solo exhibition in Kuwait, presented by Contemporary Art Platform (CAP). Spanning two decades of her practice, the exhibition offers an intimate and layered encounter with Faraj’s evolving visual language, one shaped by displacement, memory, and a persistent search for belonging.
Faraj’s work moves between abstraction and symbolism, balancing restraint and emotion. Her paintings, often structured through geometry and rhythm, carry the traces of personal and collective histories. The exhibition unfolds across key bodies of work, beginning with her early geometric compositions and culminating in the Nakhal and HOME series, which reveal the artist’s continued dialogue between rootedness and movement.
In Nakhal, the date palm stands as a witness to endurance and heritage, its presence both fragile and unyielding. Each tree becomes a repository of memory, a reminder of what survives. In HOME, conceived during the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the domestic interior transforms into a space of reflection and quiet resilience, exploring how belonging is redefined through stillness and distance.
Faraj’s practice carries echoes of modernist inquiry while remaining profoundly personal. The structural clarity of her compositions recalls early abstraction, yet her approach to colour and texture introduces an emotive depth that transcends formalism. Her canvases become meditations on what it means to inhabit multiple times and places at once, to reconcile loss with continuity, and memory with hope.
Roots & Horizons: T/Racing Time is less a retrospective than a tracing of lived experience through form and colour. It is a reflection on art’s capacity to hold the weight of history while remaining open to transformation, a reminder that from every root, a horizon unfolds.
Location: Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), Kuwait
Date: 5 November 2025 until 25 January 2026
About Maysaloun Faraj
Maysaloun Faraj is a London-based painter, ceramist, and sculptor whose work reflects a life lived across continents. Born in the USA and raised between Los Angeles, Baghdad, and London, her practice bridges East and West through vibrant colour, geometry, and abstraction. Trained in architecture, Faraj explores spirituality, identity, and memory, transforming formal precision into poetic reflection. Beyond her art, she has been instrumental in promoting modern Iraqi art internationally, notably curating the first major touring exhibition of contemporary Iraqi art (2000–2003) and editing Strokes of Genius (2001). Her works feature in major collections, including the British Museum and Mathaf.