Moataz Alqaissy Baghdad 1986 is a contemporary painter whose practice investigates the transformation of painting through material. Working with cotton, burlap, cardboard, wood, found objects and paint, he constructs works in which surface and structure become inseparable.

His paintings emerge through processes of cutting, folding, staining, layering, stitching and repair. Rather than treating these actions as marks upon a support, the support itself becomes an active participant in the making of the work. Fabric absorbs colour, burlap resists it, cardboard bends under pressure, wood introduces weight, and each material retains its own physical memory while contributing to a unified composition.

Operating between painting, relief and object, Alqaissy’s works challenge conventional ideas of the picture plane. Tears become openings, repairs become drawing, folds become geometry, and gravity becomes a compositional force. The paintings are not representations of objects or places, but material events that reveal their own construction.

Although the works may evoke bodies, architecture, landscapes or archaeological remains, these associations remain deliberately unresolved. Instead, they inhabit a space where rupture and repair, violence and resilience, absence and reconstruction coexist, allowing viewers to bring their own histories and emotional narratives to the work.

By expanding the role of the support, Alqaissy approaches painting as a continuously evolving structure—one in which construction and destruction, fragility and resilience, surface and object coexist.