A global body exhibition, a duo exhibition by director and visual artist Gigi Hazima in collaboration with me, was a one-day exhibition held on July 9 as a side event for the night of screening films by Saudi directors in Paris, which was the first evening of the Independent Saudi Cinema Salon in partnership with the international film school Esra in Paris. I will continue telling you how we arranged the place and transformed it from a classroom into an art gallery. Benjamin Azoulay, the deputy director of the school, had promised to bring easels to display our works. He brought 12 easels, which is all they had. We could only set up the place on the day of the exhibition because it is a classroom where lessons are held. So, on the morning of the exhibition, Gigi, producer Harry Shield, and I went, arranged the place—with Harry having the most credit—and started placing our paintings on easels. We placed some on the classroom tables that we turned into a display area. I had brought two large unstretched works; I stuck them to the classroom wall. In the end, my reproduced works were only four, and the rest are original small works, including four watercolor miniatures. As for Gigi Hazima, most of her works were original small works, in addition to five prints. She placed three in frames she bought from a nearby shop and stuck two on the wall. We divided the exhibition into two sides: one side for my works and the other for Gigi's works. The theme was one—the body—but the approach was different, with a complementarity in vision and a beautiful difference in expression. We attached the exhibition statement in both Arabic and English to the classroom door.

We placed the brochures I had previously printed, explaining the concept of the exhibition, on a table we set under the blackboard.

It was a beautiful, enjoyable, and exhausting adventure at the same time, especially for the only man we completely relied on for the difficult tasks.

The result was stunning—how a classroom turned into an art gallery. The deputy director, who knows the place and uses it as a classroom, said that frankly after seeing it as an exhibition following three hours of exhausting work. After that, we ran to the hotel to change clothes and prepare appropriately for the occasion. Before going up to our rooms, Gigi insisted that we run to the nearby flower shop to get a bouquet to welcome the guests.

All the arrangements to transform the place into a suitable hall for this event were thanks to Gigi Hazima: the bouquet, the oud player to whom she gave a list of Saudi songs, Saudi coffee, and dates. It was a quintessentially Saudi night. I have told you about the arrangements, but I haven't told you about the wonderful impression of the attendees.

But it was indeed so. The opinion of the great and lovely writer Issa Makhlouf was heartwarming and uplifting, as was the opinion of the great and lovely critic Ibrahim al-Aris about the exhibited works.

Thank you to everyone who attended, and thank you for the wonderful feedback. Another article is needed to talk about the rest of the night, as it was a Saudi night in Paris that deserves to be discussed at length.