ABDULJABBAR AL YAHYA

Building

"Abdul Jabbar's work has been characterized by the basic elements of man, nature and life and the environment within. Throughout his eclectic career as an artist, he has evolved through a set of phases that saw him present us with these elements in a unique light. He showed us the human element and the surrounding environment in a manner that was expressionist with a hint of surrealism and he cocooned women in a fantastical atmosphere saturated with phosphoric and bright colours, showing women as a fundamental element that is affected by life more than it was affecting it."          – Dr. Salah Askar

ABDULJABBAR AL YAHYA

Belonging

Al Yahya shows us what it truly means to belong. This one theme that is evident in his work has had a great impact on his person and his art. It is belonging to the self and its inner conflicts, it is belonging to family, to people, a nation and it is belonging to all of that, to humanity as a physiological and existential being.

Belonging to land is simply your feeling of owning and being owned by it, of what it gives you and what it takes. How the body merges with the soil and the ground. In this case, it is a sign of a give-and-take relationship of this love. But this definition of belonging is not what goes in the mind of the subject but that which is within the artist’s mind himself.  – Kamal Mamdooh Hamdi, writer and art critic