The Night is No Good is a group exhibition that presents the works of three Saudi artists; Batool Al-Shomrani, Fahad bin Naif, and Aziz Jamal. The exhibition prompted the artists to venture into a personal and self-reflective journey to explore individual notions and symbols of grief, memory, and belonging. The show features new commissions by bin Naif and Al-Shomrani as well as a never before seen iteration of the piece by Jamal. The works investigate, through various mediums, the disorienting feeling of returning to something unfamiliar; by examining both the distance from the incident or place and the longing for its return to a previous state. A futile attempt at making peace with a reality that does not exist but also can no longer exist.
At the core of the show is forgiveness; an honest reconciliation with shifted realities. For the artists, forgiveness in this context is recognized as a form of true liberation from detrimental hope. The works mark a burial of hope for the past to be altered and the absolution of the future from its implications. The show is cathartic and diaristic in its approach yet intentionally hopeless.