In Lamp/Bear Swiss artist Urs Fischer combines memory with scale, creating simultaneously a monument and a vision. Scale defines our experience with art and particularly with sculpture.

Scale doesn't mean necessarily smaller or bigger. It means placing the viewer in a different relation to the reality he or she is familiar with. Memory is not just the past but a way to reimagine our lives.

Lamp Bear is welcoming the guests at Doha's airport and celebrating the idea of travel, just as the artist celebrates travelling back in time to the symbols of childhood - a place we have all been to and where once in a while we like to go back. The yellow bear and its lamp are both playful and impressive: The coming of age of a simple toy into a full grown art work.