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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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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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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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
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,
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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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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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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