Our Paths to Damascus
October 7 – November 9, Le Radar, Bayeux, France
Curators: Abdulmonam Eassa and Ghaith Abdul Ahad
Presented at Le Radar as part of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents, “Our Paths to Damascus” was produced by the WARM Foundation in Sarajevo, as part of a long-standing partnership between WARM and the Bayeux Award.
After more than half a century of tyranny and enforced silence under the Assad regime, Syrian artists and photographers are finally reclaiming their voices and their homeland. This exhibition brings together their works – images and stories long suppressed – created across a country that, since December 2024, has once again opened its doors to journalists and artists returning from exile.
Curated by Abdulmonam Eassa and Ghaith Abdul Ahad, the exhibition features the work of fourteen Syrian photographers and visual artists, bearing witness to the courage, memory, and resilience of a generation that has endured repression, war, and the fragile moment of return.
Our Paths to Damascus was first presented in Sarajevo in July 2025 during the WARM Festival, and now continues its journey in Bayeux – symbolically linking two cities deeply committed to journalism, truth, and memory. Both exhibitions, in Sarajevo and Bayeux, were designed by Lamija Idrizbegović of the WARM Foundation, ensuring a strong visual and conceptual continuity between the two presentations.
The exhibition embodies WARM’s mission to connect the voices of witnesses, artists, and journalists who document conflict and its aftermath around the world.
