Sperveri – سبيرفيري Embroidery, curcuma, colours on bed-tent 400 cm x 220 cm x 110 cm various embroidery styles and free style filling with threads, palestinian cross-stitch technique, all done with polyester, cotton and silk threads, acrylic paint, curcuma, pencils and threads on linen and cotton – 2017 Sperveri is a conceptual work made as […]
I want to be a party – أنا حزب و حفلة راقصة ongoing series of paintings and embroideries – most recently a talk with projected images In I Want to be a Party, I make embroideries and paintings, to tell particular stories of my childhood, personalizing disasters, and looking back at specific massacres and wars through
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to avoid the greatest heat of the sun, is kept in the night, and by the light of the moon: an inexistent books’ catalogue. performance at Horch Beirut – commissioned by “VOLUME” Performance description: A group of performers meet and read titles of books that do not exist, are fictional, or were not accomplished, nor
after eight hand-knit and machine-knit works on felt, plastic nylon bags, paper and other, 2014 This work is made of various hand-knit and machine-knit sentences that I embroidered on intimate surfaces, that help me register my notes and contradicting thoughts and findings resulting from an on-going research on language which I mostly continue doing at
vrij/oui/ligers 30′ video, 2012-2014 “Vrijouiligers” is a deliberate misspelling of the word “vrijwilligers” which means in Dutch or in Flemish volunteers. Replacing the “wi” in the middle of the word by “oui” evokes the phantom of the french language in this word that originally comes from french “volontair” or from latin “voluntarius”. To volonteer is
clogged intervention at art dubai 2014 this intervention invited people in the context of dubai art fair and during the most glamorous time of the opening to be reminded of the syrian crisis: I invited gallerists, artists, art students, art critics, those working at the art fair and the volunteers as well as the visitors,
Heard/felt سمع/معس double-sided patchwork curtains, about 280 x 250 cm each, 2014 These huge suspended double-sided patchworks are a playful reflection suspended between space and language based on the three letter word roots in the Arabic language. These suspended-like reflections are resulting from a linguistic research based on readings of Lebanese sociologist and linguist Ahmad Beydoun.
All mother tongues are difficult – عسيرة هي اللغة الأُمّ six to seven embroideries of mostly white text on black background 36 x 64 cm each, 2014 six to seven embroideries that transgress the form of a video still and the white text on black background in silent films in order to register a temporary
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now eat my script 24′ 50 video, 2014 “Now Eat My Script is a precipice, a fluid solution in which some spectral noises of the self float adrift. Narration takes the role of a pregnant writer who continuously affirms her hunger and clumsiness towards language and history. Her body is crossed over by both the
Dinosaurs HDV video installation with multiple screens, 2012-2014 In Dinosaurs I direct friends and family members to reenact scenes from existing or non-existing films wherein the act of drinking reveals moments of intimacy, aggression, and physiological interactions created by the “actors” who actively participate in the interpretation of each scene. Their characters live in an eternal,
