IN THE EYES OF: TAMARA AL-SAMERRAEI - EP 16

Discover Tamara Al-Samerraei in this new episode of our series In The Eyes Of, and dive into a residency shaped by sillence and the landscapes of childhood.  

A Kuwaiti artist whose painting practice explores uninhabited spaces and silent architectures, Tamara Al-Samerraei settles in Cyprus as part of the Art Explora Crossed Residency programme.  

For the artist, the island is not only a place of creation: it is also a refuge. Through the various geopolitical contexts that have marked Lebanon, Cyprus has often represented a space of safety, a temporary point of anchorage.  

This time, she comes there to work. The residency becomes an opportunity to revisit places she frequented as a child: deserted houses, isolated beaches, landscapes marked by the absence of human presence.

Through this residency, her gesture becomes more minimalist: removing, simplifying, keeping only the essential. Abandoned architectures then become spaces of projection, somewhere between memory, refuge, and solitude.

In Cyprus, Tamara Al-Samerraei thus transforms a place of passage into a territory of creation and an environment where isolation becomes material for imagination.