Pane (Bread) is the title of the work of Keam Tallaa, a young Syrian artist from Damascus, and it sets the tone of her new project in Europe. Bread understood as physical and mental nourishment, bread as the essence of survival and of culture. Her arrival in Rome marks a fixed point in her cultural and existential journey: a place where, in a certain way, she finds similarities with her native city, thanks to the ancient stones embedded in today’s city and to the open, warm character of its inhabitants. A unique occasion, then, to meet in person an artist and a woman who has much to tell about the meaning of art.
Her work Pane is made with flour, water and colour, with which she has developed a new printmaking technique. Her bread is made of matter and of writing: abstract signs, engraved from memory, reaching back to the cultural heritage of her land, more than 5,000 years old. The Stamperia del Tevere will show her works as a symbol of dialogue between peoples and cultures, a commitment that has marked the work of young and exemplary printmakers for several years, with projects in Italy and abroad.