”Drawing makes it possible to address very harsh realities without imposing the violence of photographs or words. But when I draw, I also work with light, shadow, silhouettes and depth.”
Najah Albukai is a Syrian artist, draughtsman, painter and printmaker, trained at the Fine Arts School in Damascus and later in France. A political refugee since 2015, he has developed a body of work informed by his experience of imprisonment in Syrian regime prisons. Through drawing, printmaking, ink and watercolour, he gives form to the traces of prison violence and war, without reducing his work to testimony: his research also explores light, colour, animals and the expressive possibilities of the image itself. Artist-in-residence at the Casa de Velázquez in 2021–2022, he continues a work of memory in which artistic rigour remains central.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najah_Albukai
