"In the happy places, the caresses float down from the mountains carried by the wind, and the brown earth warms them. The clouds stretch like washing lines where dreams can be hung to let them swell in the air, fresh every day. And life feels like a walk barefoot on the grass. In the happy places, life is as fresh as it was at the origin of the world. A-l-p-h-a. The beginning. The origin. The creation."

Echoes of Alpha reflects on memory, loss, and renewal through paintings rescued from Sweida, Southern Syria. After AlphaArt was destroyed in 2011, much of a generation's cultural memory was lost, raising the question of how art survives displacement. Through the work of Fouad Boutraba and Aiman Fudda, the exhibition explores resilience and the transformation of pain into new awareness. Rather than mourning what vanished, it awakens what remains—living memory, continuity, and the quiet possibility of creation emerging from ruins.