The curtain has fallen on “Harbours of the Wind,” a solo exhibition by Libyan visual artist Ehab Al-Farsi, hosted at Barah Foundation for Arts in Benghazi. The event drew a notable crowd of artists, critics, and cultural enthusiasts, offering a contemplative journey through Al-Farsi’s layered visual language.
Inspired by the sea and its harbours, Al-Farsi’s works evoke themes of absence and longing, rendered through a delicate interplay of realism and abstraction. His canvases, rich in blues and greens, depict maritime scenes that serve as metaphors for memory and displacement, a recurring motif in his artistic vocabulary.
A promotional image from the exhibition shows the artist in his studio, framed by a vibrant seascape, a visual shorthand for his commitment to place and the emotional textures of Libyan identity.
Organised as part of Barah Foundation’s ongoing initiative to spotlight Libyan contemporary art, the exhibition aligns with its mission to nurture local talent and document the country’s evolving visual and social narratives.
Al-Farsi, regarded as one of Libya’s leading contemporary painters, often uses the harbour as a symbolic threshold, a space where personal reflection meets collective memory. His latest collection invites viewers to consider not only the geography of the city, but the emotional moorings of its people.
“Harbours of the Wind” offered more than aesthetic pleasure; it was a quiet meditation on identity, rootedness, and the invisible journeys of the soul.
