Doha

- A person usually wants to know his mind and the thoughts and feelings that revolve in it, and the minds of others and the details they carry. This is what an art exhibition opened in Doha - yesterday - Sunday - under the title "Your mind as I see it, and my mind as you see it" is trying to answer.

The exhibition held at the National Museum of Qatar is the first in the Middle East for the famous Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, and joins the list of exhibitions organized by the museum in the context of its role towards society.

The exhibition “Your Mind As I See It, My Mind As You See It” will run until December 20, and will be open to hundreds of thousands of visitors expected to attend the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

The exhibition invites its visitors to embark on a journey in which they discover themselves, through an experience that moves their senses and leads them to meditate and puts them in a state of astonishment and amazement. The exhibition also symbolizes the collective unconscious of humanity and the ability of the human mind.

The exhibition takes the visitor on a tour of the human mind (Al Jazeera)

new experience

Qatar Museums Chairperson, Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani believes that the exhibition will captivate visitors of all ages, providing an experience of lights and sounds that immerses visitors in the intricate details of the human mind while taking them on a journey around the landscape of Qatar.

She added that the exhibition will become one of the exhibitions "DOD" (Children's Museum in Qatar) after its first show at the Qatar National Museum, as it will be a stimulating and inspiring experience for families in the heart of Doha.

A key feature of the exhibition is the “pixels” of 12,000 lights suspended on electrical connections throughout the showroom that visitors pass through. In harmony with an audio clip that depicts in the imagination of visitors the natural scenes in Qatar.

Al-Kuwari: The exhibition talks about people's minds and mental health (Al-Jazeera)

self review

And the guide at the Qatar National Museum, Jassim Saeed Al-Kuwari, believes - in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net - that the exhibition talks about people's minds and their mental health, especially two years after the Corona pandemic, which imposed on people feelings of fear and loneliness, explaining that the idea of ​​the exhibition hall is based on the use of technology in a new way and urged People review themselves and discover the minds of others.

Al-Kuwari added that the exhibition comes within the framework of the "Are you okay?" campaign.

Mental health, which aims to get people to talk about their psychological problems. One out of every 4 people faces psychological problems, but the majority do not talk about those problems, so these exhibitions are hosted that urge people to speak.

And about the new method used in the exhibition, Al-Kuwari said that the exhibition consists of two adjacent rooms, the first in which the visitor sits and listens to musical pieces with light effects in the form of the human mind in a time of up to 10 minutes until he thinks about himself and the minds of others, then he goes to the second room to write what It came to his mind during the first show.

The exhibition allows the visitor to write his thoughts at the end of the tour (Al-Jazeera)

long time

On the length of the exhibition, which extends for more than 9 months, Al-Kuwari explained that the extension of this period came to provide an opportunity for the largest possible number of visitors during the period of Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, noting that the visit to the exhibition is free, to push the public to visit and benefit from the objectives of the exhibition.

The exhibition demonstrates the National Museum of Qatar's commitment to engaging the most distinguished artists from around the world with local audiences, and providing support for the work of distinguished artists, as well as a room for self-discovery that allows museum-goers to tune in to Qatar's past, present and future.

The exhibition highlights the National Museum of Qatar's commitment to raising awareness about mental health issues as a cornerstone of human well-being, which is in line with the mental health campaign "Are you okay?"

Regulated by the healthcare sector in Qatar.

The exhibition supports the objectives of the partnership between the Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization, the International Football Association (FIFA) and the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, which aims to make the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 an opportunity to promote physical and psychological health and a model in health and safety to be emulated by sporting events. future mega.