“Sometimes, a photo takes you back in time and revives the joy and the happiness of that moment and some other times, it takes you to the sorrow and the sadness of the past. One photo can evoke the memory and give you a chance to rewrite your history once again and invites you to live the moment with a totally new perspective and new vivid emotions.“

With these words, Mrs. Mervat Alameer invites you to visit her art exhibition "MEMORIES" at the MOYA in Palais Schönborn in Vienna.

Vernissage: March 28, 2014 | 6.30 pm – 10.00 pm
Exhibition: March 29, 2014 | 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

Mervat Alameer was born in Makkah city, Saudi Arabia. She studied Fine Arts and already had several exhibitions within and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, e.g. at the London Art Biennale 2013. Amongst several voluntary posts, she is hosting the international campaign Yallanarsom (“let's draw”), a volunteer group of professional and non-professional painters to learn lessons and expertise.
Mrs Alameer’s last exhibition in the MOYA was at the Vienna Showcase in October 2013.

In her exhibition, Mervat Alameer invites us to search our memory for a new beginning for a new tomorrow. The environment, in which our interactions with people and objects reflect our behaviour, imprints our mental state into our memories. In the moment of their activation, our emotions and feelings are recalled. By addressing the importance of memories in her artworks, Mervat Alameer aims to open her personal space present in her works based on watercolour paintings in warm earth tones.
The classical atmosphere of the MOYA – Museum of Young Art - in Palais Schönborn in the heart of Vienna offers a spectacular setting and completes the exhibition due to an intense contrast to the essential artworks of Mervat Alameer.