Erasing the distance between word & color
I am one of those artists who dislike being categorized as belonging to any particular art school. In every experience, I strive to build a new visual style distinct from the one before, responding to an inner call to search for new aesthetic possibilities within the painting. This parallels my desire for existential and spatial stability, and my wish to avoid the dominance of reason in the execution of my works. I rely heavily on my feelings and inner intuition to create harmonious color rhythms in relation to adjacent forms and the surrounding void that embraces the painting's essential elements.
For years, I have been captivated by the poetic world of Qassim Haddad, poetry that transcends language to form an inner visual structure. I have always felt that his verses carry within them unseen colors and lines, waiting to be released onto canvas. The idea for this exhibition emerged as an experiment in transforming poetic text into a visual language, not to rival poetry, but to reveal its depths from a painterly perspective.
In this exhibition, I sought to reinterpret poems from Distance Therapy by the Bahraini poet Qassim Haddad through drawing, color, and space. My aim was not direct representation but rather a sensory and spiritual translation of the text, in which the canvas becomes an extension of the poem's pulse. This experience is not a retelling, but a re-creation, charged with the personal resonance between poet and painter.
This is not my first exploration of this kind. In 2001, I created a visual project featuring large-scale works inspired by Les Chants de Maldoror, a collection of poems by the French poet Lautréamont. Later, in 2023, I returned to this approach with a visual interpretation of Mirrors of Absence by the Syrian poet Faraj Bayraqdar.
In this project, I seek to grant Qassim Haddad's poems their own visual features through a silent dialogue between word and image. My paintings are executed in acrylics and inks on canvas and brown paper.
Artist Deldar Felemez
2025
For years, I have been captivated by the poetic world of Qassim Haddad, poetry that transcends language to form an inner visual structure. I have always felt that his verses carry within them unseen colors and lines, waiting to be released onto canvas. The idea for this exhibition emerged as an experiment in transforming poetic text into a visual language, not to rival poetry, but to reveal its depths from a painterly perspective.
In this exhibition, I sought to reinterpret poems from Distance Therapy by the Bahraini poet Qassim Haddad through drawing, color, and space. My aim was not direct representation but rather a sensory and spiritual translation of the text, in which the canvas becomes an extension of the poem's pulse. This experience is not a retelling, but a re-creation, charged with the personal resonance between poet and painter.
This is not my first exploration of this kind. In 2001, I created a visual project featuring large-scale works inspired by Les Chants de Maldoror, a collection of poems by the French poet Lautréamont. Later, in 2023, I returned to this approach with a visual interpretation of Mirrors of Absence by the Syrian poet Faraj Bayraqdar.
In this project, I seek to grant Qassim Haddad's poems their own visual features through a silent dialogue between word and image. My paintings are executed in acrylics and inks on canvas and brown paper.
Artist Deldar Felemez
2025
