noa language school 2013 – in collaboration with curator Angela Serino noa language school was made in preparation for NOA (Not Only Arabic) magazine III titled “On Words, Prejudice, Schizophrenia and Enta Omri” (see publications) noa language school (2013) was made in collaboration with curator Angela Serino, with thanks to Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam Fonds voor […]
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And suddenly there were women 45 minutes, site specific performance: ministry of foreign affairs, the hague, 2013 Al Solh presented a series of performances at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs exploring performance as a “live event” in the central conference room of the building, questioning the lecture/performance approach. and suddenly there were women consists of
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A double burger and two metamorphoses: a proposal for a Dutch cat, a Dutch dog, a Dutch donkey, a Dutch goat and finally, a Dutch camel, 2011 24 minutes mini-DV video, two manipulated mechanical cuckoo clocks and wires 2011 I kept myself locked in for three days inside an empty house to force myself create
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While Guy Debord sleeps collages, electricity cuts, candles, 2011 This work was commissioned by the Thessaloniki Biennial which took place in June 2011. After I got invited to visit Thessaloniki a few months ahead of the show in order to develop a work for the biennial, here was my response: Focusing on the non-materiality of production reflecting
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The mute tongue video(s), 19 arabic proverbs, 20: 47′, HDV, 2010 In this work, I staged in silent vignettes 19 Arabic proverbs and sayings I use in my daily life, even if I might disapprove with their meaning, and I invited Croatian performer and artist Sinisa Labrovic who does not speak Arabic to be the
The sea is a stereo videos, collages, nivea cream jar, and other, 2007-2010 The sea is a stereo is an on-going series of reflections on a group of men who swim everyday at the beach in Beirut no matter the circumstances: rain, wind, war, etc. Even as we read this, the men might be swimming or preparing
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Bassam Ramlawi drawings, paintings and other works by and about Ramlawi, 2009- ongoing Bassam Ramlawi (Beirut, Lebanon; 1976) Working during the day in a juice shop owned by his father, Ramlawi has a studio practice mostly in the evenings, and on the few days where he does not work in the shop. He studied Fine Arts
Ambulant megaphone sight specific work – 3 painted stars, 3 mini-monitors connected to 3 megaphones, wall, 2009 This work was made for “El Patio de Mi Casa”, “The sky within my house”, a group-show where artists were invited by Gerardo Mosquera to invade sixteen private historical and monumental patios in Cordoba, Spain, and make a
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Reclining men with sculpture stamps sketches and short stories, 2007 These are a number of historical stories behind the creation of postage stamp series in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and the UK. For the first time in history, two states decide to share the same stamp. Despite difficult times, Iran and the UK agreed that “Historical
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in brown, longtime thresholds and substrates without catalogues sound piece, walnut wood carved mimbars, 2 suspended speakers, 2 spotlights, 2014 The work is a sound piece that I recorded with my voice singing in various dialects and languages repeatedly parts of the very famous Egyptian song “Enta Omri” by Um Kaltoum. I deconstruct it, re-think
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