Drawing, for Kevork Mourad, is not a sketch toward something else. It is the work itself: a continuous act in which lines gather momentum, figures appear and dissolve, and architectural traces surface like memory.
Time does not sit outside the image. It enters the surface and remains visible within it.
The exhibition opened on 18 January 2026 with a live performance by Kevork Mourad and the musician Georges Yammine, followed by a conversation between the artist and the curator. It was presented by Bissan Gallery and Artbridger (Hong Kong) at AlBahie Auction House, Katara Cultural Village, Building 22C, Doha.
Kevork Mourad was born in Kameshli, Syria, trained at the Yerevan Institute of Fine Art, and lives in New York. He moves between painting, drawing and moving image, often bringing his visuals into music and performance. His animated and live visuals have travelled from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Aga Khan Museum, and from Walt Disney Concert Hall to the Elbphilharmonie.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, and his practice has been recognised with the Robert Bosch Stiftung prize.
