‘Road to Makkah’ feature works by VCUarts Qatar alumni – The Peninsula

‘Road to Makkah’ feature works by VCUarts Qatar alumni – The Peninsula

Doha: Artworks by three alumni from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, are part of the exhibition titled 'Road to Makkah', at Eiwan Al Gassar Gallery – St. Regis. The exhibition runs until September 10, 2022.

30 artists from 12 countries – Qatar, Saudi, Bahrain, Oman, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Sudan, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom – are participating in the exhibition. The exhibition is curated by Bachir Mohammad.

Faheem Khan, BFA, Graphic Design, Class of 2019, MFA in Design, Class of 2022; Othman M Khunji, MFA in Design, Class of 2015; and Noof Al-Naama, BFA, Interior Design, Class of 2022 are the three alumni participating in the presentation.

Faheem Khan's art installation is titled 'Less Water, More Holy: Tools for Sustainable Ablution'.

The artworks are part of Khan's MFA in Design thesis. Khan says he feels "a moral obligation to use his gifts and talent as a designer to help Muslims follow our Prophet's sunnah, after all as believers of Islam, that is our goal".

He explains further, "Muslims pray five times a day, and before each prayer, they first clean themselves by performing ritual ablution (wudu). To visualize and better understand