Afterschool recalls the time we spent when the school day was over, remembering the activities, sceneries, experiences, interactions, rituals, and daily routines. Calling to mind the transition between an inhibited, restricted time and space to freely roaming in an unstructured environment, such as the streets, public parks, and our homes. Spaces where time is spent in solitude or company. Depicting collective routines and memories shared across generations around Saudi Arabia.
Through various mediums such as photography, installation, video game, painting, textile, and collage. The works evoke feelings of solitude, community, curiosity, slowness, and playfulness. Creating an opportunity to slow down, go inwards, and reflect softly on the past. Featuring works by Ahaad Almoudi, Basmah Felemban, Mohammad Alfaraj, Rami Farook,and Sara Abu Abdulallah.
This exhibition is an invitation to take a journey through memory lane. Feeling calm, safe, nostalgic, at home, instigating hidden, unlocked, forgotten memories through connection with an art piece, shifting our perception of the past, reflecting on practices we felt free to do, and others that felt restricted. Reminding us of smaller details, the changes we went through, experienced in a certain timeline, urges us to return to ourselves, going inward, an opportunity to hold onto, despite being constantly consumed by outer distractions.
