The exhibition was inaugurated by Prof. Hossam Hamdy, Chancellor of Gulf Medical University. “We are proud to host this unique exhibition at our campus. Asma Elmongi is a talented artist and her work exhibited in GMU helps to use art to start conversations among the community about what mental health looks like to them, and to encourage students, faculty and people to tell their own experiences of hope and well-being. In context, art can both express and help heal mental illness — and how the beauty and chaos of painting preserves those challenges.”

Adding about her work, Elmongi said, “I always felt strongly about violence, and wanted to describe the subject in my own artistic way. Hence, I started studying available research work on violence and I found many reasons behind violence, and one of the major one was psychological and mental disorders. Also, I came across manuscripts by scientists where medical conditions were explained with drawings. I was intrigued and based on my knowledge of anatomy drawings, I started integrating parts of human body and animal body together along with machine and weapons to create these symbolic paintings. They are not scientific paintings as they have distortion, and express my unique point of view, each one of them. But they-re research backed.”