Following our inaugural “Monet's Legacy II”, Kwai Fung Hin Singapore is pleased to present “Ziad Dalloul: Only light has no shadow”, in collaboration with the Embassy of France in Singapore as part of the vOilah! France Singapore Festival.
Marking the Syrian-French artist's debut exhibition in Southeast Asia, the exhibition brings together paintings from the past five years alongside selected engraving and archival materials, tracing his artistic evolution, five decades of technical mastery, and philosophical inquiry into nature and existence.
In Ziad Dalloul's paintings, everything is alive. There are no dead objects—only silent witnesses charged with presence. The boundary between landscape and interior dissolves: a bed floats in forest depths, a table stands at the river's edge, curtains billow against volcanic rock like falling water.
For over two decades, four archetypal forms—bed, chair, table, curtain—have been displaced into wild landscapes, standing in for lives lived and questions unresolved. Through them, Dalloul explores thresholds between interior and exterior, visible and invisible, presence and absence. Light binds each element into a single, vibrating whole. His work does not provide answers—it asks the most fundamental questions: What are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?