The title of this exhibition is inspired by the epic of Gilgamesh, king of the Sumerian city of Uruk, who lived a life full of tyranny, pleasure, and wars. After the death of his heroic companion Enkidu, he decides to abandon all this to search for immortality. He embarks on a long and arduous journey to find the only person who can guide him to achieve his goal.

Gilgamesh reaches the edge of the world, where he witnesses the sunset behind a hill and notices a dark spot in the middle of the hill. He discovers it is the gateway to the sun's path, leading to another world beyond that of humans. Thus begins his exciting journey in this mysterious realm. After many battles and difficult challenges, Gilgamesh reaches the shore of death, where he discovers that on a nearby island (Dilmun, the city of the living) lives a wise man named Utnapishtim, who survived the great flood thanks to a boat he built himself.

Gilgamesh approaches the wise man and asks him about the details of the flood and how to achieve immortality. Utnapishtim advises Gilgamesh to search for the flower of immortality at the bottom of the island's sea. After much struggle, Gilgamesh obtains the plant and decides to take it back to Uruk to test it on the elderly before consuming it himself. On his way back, while bathing in the river, a snake manages to reach the plant and devour it. Gilgamesh is forced to continue his journey back to Uruk, having lost the flower and resigned to his humanity. He realizes that immortality is an eternal dilemma and that the life he seeks will never be attained. He understands that the only path to immortality is through the beneficial works and achievements one leaves behind. Thus, Gilgamesh begins to love life, enjoy it, establish justice and tolerance, and orders the construction of massive projects that still exist today, immortalizing him for thousands of years.

The epic continues, but I've limited myself to what I've mentioned. What I seek to emphasize is the relationship between the Sumerians and the people of Dilmun, which was considered a city where no one falls ill or dies – the city of immortality for the Sumerians. There is evidence that the Sumerians would venture on long journeys to transport their dead for burial in the paradise city of Dilmun. As an artist from the land of Sumer, I ultimately aim to draw wisdom from the lessons Gilgamesh learned after all his adventures and the difficult challenges he faced in his search for immortality.