a day is as long as a year collectively embroidered tent Women’s stories of separation, loss, hope and resilience are displayed within Al Solh’s large tent titled A day is as long as a year (2022). This major work has been developed collaboratively with women embroiderers from Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, the Netherlands and South Africa. Made […]
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the mother of David and Goliath series of paintings oil on canvas – 2019/2020 The starting point is personnal dreams and mixed up memories, as well as narratives of women’s arrests, and of positions and acts, from daily life, those defying patriarchy. I photograph myself in various positions, to be able to paint those gestures,
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Lackadaisical Sunset to Sunset من الشُّروق إلى الفَحمة embroidered series of 3 tents with sound – in progress 3 embroidered tents – first 2 tents exhibited in May 2019 in Beirut- ongoing work 3.5 diameter x 220 height each tent sound via megaphone with recorded voice of Lebanese singer Rima Khcheiche, reading the names
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My Favourite Hour is a Night Hour: Al Fahma من الشُّروق إلى الفَحمة performance presented in collaboration with musician Jana Saleh Written and Performed by Mounira Al SolhMusic created and played by Jana SalehCirca 30 minutes performance First presented at “Position V”, during my solo exhibition at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 2019
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The levels of Thirst – مراتب الحاجة إلى شرب الماء 39 plastic and glass containers filled with water, printed A4 paper, 24 digital prints – ongoing 39 plastic and glass containers are filled with water collected from natural water sources in Lebanon, and placed directly in the sunlight, on a lower window seal. Putting the
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in love in blood – بالحبّ بالدّم writings on the wall and embroideries 2019- ongoing work The starting point of the work is a list of the words of love compiled by Ibn Qayyim El Jawziyya, who was born in Damascus in 1292. As I am collecting words, language-related sources, and lexicons, the list fo
freedom is a habit I am trying to learn documentary film with Rogine, Hanine, Waad and ZeinaHD video 43’ 18” (colour, sound) – 2019 I spent 24 hours with each of four women – Rogin, Waad, Hanin and Zeina – in the cities where they now live, Zutphen, Washington DC, Oslo and Sharjah respctively. All
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Installation view I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous – كُلّي إيمان في حقّنا بالطَيْش hand-written conversations and drawings on yellow legal-pad and other A4 papers – ongoing This work began in 2012, as an ongoing series of portraits, or perhaps time documents. The series is made after directly meeting with Syrian individuals,
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بصحَّة الحلفاء – à la santé des alliés 2003- 2019 video What is at stake is small attemtps of stories written and typed, balancing between personal, family and historical facts, and that “abstractly” and most probably absurdly re-investigate the political upheavals in the time of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Union with Syria, while I
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nassib’s bakery – فرن نسيب Bakery as a memorial and an active performance – Kassel – D14- 2017 In Kassel, and during Documenta 14, for a period of two weeks, I designed the exhibition space as a bakery, and painted a mural behind the counter, similar to some Lebanese restaurants in Germany, and I invited
