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Art Salons hosted by Camraas — the intellectual and cultural life of the house, kept.

August 15, 2026 · Language, memory, and what gets lost moving between them

What Survives Translation

Farah Haddad, Layla Nasser, Tom Okafor

Farah Haddad opened the evening with a stack of her grandmother's letters, half in Arabic and half in a French that had softened with age. What followed was…

August 15, 2026 · Language, memory, and what gets lost moving between them

What Survives Translation

Farah Haddad, Layla Nasser, Tom Okafor

Farah Haddad opened the evening with a stack of her grandmother's letters, half in Arabic and half in a French that had softened with age. What followed was…

August 15, 2026 · Language, memory, and what gets lost moving between them

What Survives Translation

Farah Haddad, Layla Nasser, Tom Okafor

Farah Haddad opened the evening with a stack of her grandmother's letters, half in Arabic and half in a French that had softened with age. What followed was…

June 22, 2026 · Process, ancestry and material memory in sculpture

The Weight of Bronze

Amara Osei, Dr. Ijeoma Chukwu

Amara Osei brought an unfinished cast to the salon — still rough at the seams, not yet the smooth ancestor-stranger figures her collectors know. She walked the room…

June 22, 2026 · Process, ancestry and material memory in sculpture

The Weight of Bronze

Amara Osei, Dr. Ijeoma Chukwu

Amara Osei brought an unfinished cast to the salon — still rough at the seams, not yet the smooth ancestor-stranger figures her collectors know. She walked the room…

April 10, 2026 · Where language ends and abstraction begins

Drawing the Line

Tariq Al Suwaidi, Sara Haidari

Tariq Al Suwaidi began by writing a single word on a large sheet of paper, then asked the room to watch as he kept rewriting it, faster each…

April 10, 2026 · Where language ends and abstraction begins

Drawing the Line

Tariq Al Suwaidi, Sara Haidari

Tariq Al Suwaidi began by writing a single word on a large sheet of paper, then asked the room to watch as he kept rewriting it, faster each…

January 18, 2026 · Risk, repetition and accident in ceramics

Firing Twice

Noor Rahimi, Youssef Amrani

Noor Rahimi spent much of the evening on failure — the pieces that crack, slump or simply come out wrong, and what she's learned from resisting the urge…

January 18, 2026 · Risk, repetition and accident in ceramics

Firing Twice

Noor Rahimi, Youssef Amrani

Noor Rahimi spent much of the evening on failure — the pieces that crack, slump or simply come out wrong, and what she's learned from resisting the urge…

October 9, 2025 · Painting as architecture, and architecture without a plan

A Room With No View

Luca Moretti, Ana Ferreira

Luca Moretti, trained as an architect before he was a painter, spent the salon arguing that his canvases are actually floor plans in disguise — hard edges standing…

July 24, 2025 · What a long exposure leaves out

The Unphotographed Fjord

Elin Solberg, Priya Nair

Elin Solberg talked through the physical difficulty of her practice long before she talked about the images themselves — the hours on open water, the frames that never…

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