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Title
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) Exhibition
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Habibah (Biba) Sheikh (project director, writer, curator, producer, activist) <br /><br /><strong>Visual Artists</strong> <br />Hani Alqam (Jordan) <br />Hassan Al Meer (Oman) <br />Wael Darweish (Egypt) <br />Mohammad El Howajri (Palestine) <br />Sinan Hussein (Iraq) <br />Thameur Mejri (Tunisia) <br />May Murad (Palestine) <br />Ahmed Nagy (Egypt) <br />Lucas Paleocrassas (Greece) <br />Habibah Sheikh (U.S.A/Lebanon) <br />Klaudja Sulaj (Albania) <br />Basel Uraiqat (Jordan) <br />Abbas Yousif (Bahrain) <br /><br /><strong>Photographer</strong> <br />Andrea Rude
Date
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2018-2020
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Jordan<br />Oman <br />Egypt<br />Palestine <br />Iraq<br />Tunisia<br />Palestine <br />Egypt <br />Greece <br />Lebanon <br />Albania <br />Jordan <br />Bahrain
Description
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) is a visual and literary exhibition about Islamic Internal Reflections in a Modern World. It is a culmination of writer, performer, director, and curator Habibah (Biba) Sheikh’s collaborations with thirteen Mediterranean and Arab-world artists, many of whom are refugees. As a collective, they created a body of work that weaves her poetic theatre texts, shared immigrant experiences, and testimonies about their communities and neighboring countries into visual works of art. Collectively, they illuminate stories of indignation, systemic discouragement, human trafficking, gender biases, exodus, and survival of life as human flotsam in an ever-changing, turbulent political ocean. Together with Sheikh, the artists are discussing Refugees, America, and Cultural Hybrid Theories.
Besides Sheikh, the artists comprising the collective, many of whom are current residents of occupied territories and refugee camps, include: Hani Alqam (Jordan), Thameur Mejri (Tunisia), Sinan Hussein (Iraq), Taghlib Oweis (Jordan), Wael Darweish (Egypt), Ahmed Nagy (Egypt), Klaudja Sulaj (Albania), Lucas Paleocrassas (Greece), Abbas Yousif (Bahrain), Basel Uraiqat (Jordan), Mohammed Al Hawajri (Palestine), Haitham Khatib (Syria), May Murad (Palestine), Hassan Meer (Oman).
These specific artists, working in different mediums and different countries, are connected through a common literary narrative, but each depicts their varied experiences and identities in distinctive ways, styles, and mediums. Ultimately, these works symbolize a celebration of survival and perseverance, of community, and of culture, and witness how the artists' situations reverberate with refugees worldwide.
Touring Exhibitions 2018-2020
N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan
Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Third Avenue Playhouse, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Peeler Art Museum, Depauw, Indiana
Mitli Mitlak’s artworks were brought to life as a theater production, directed by Habibah Sheikh; Part 1 is titled "Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)," and Part 2 is titled "Right to Live."
Relation
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Right to Live
Type
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Landscape paintings, abstract paintings, contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture, film, video, video portraits, mixed media
Rights
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Rights remain with the artists.
Subject
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Refugees, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Contemporary Art, Mediterranean Fire, Jordan, Oman, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Palestine, Greece, Lebanon, Albania, Bahrain
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Mixed Media
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Nothing is True, Everything Is Possible, by Abbas Yousif (Bahrain)
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Abbas Yousif
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
Date
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2018
Coverage
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Painting Was Made In The Artist's Resident Country Of Bahrain
Format
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jpeg., 40 x 40 (inches)
Relation
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)
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English
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Rights Remain With Artist
Description
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This work was created in response to poetic theatre texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) exhibition. In the text, a character named Ruba experiences the destruction of war firsthand and becomes a refugee in the process.
This painting represents a scene in Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me). There is a mythical character called ‘Spirit Master’, who separates Ruba’s spirit from her lifeless body, and conducts a soul migration ceremony for her to go to the light in the ‘Out of Life’.
Abbas Yousif’s painting overlaps the below two sentences spoken by the Spirit Master, in painted Arabic letters:
Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), Act 1 Scene 4
Spirit Master: Nothing Is An Act, But Nothing Is The Truth, Except What Comes After Death. There Is No Such Thing As Facts. Nothing Is True, Everything Is Possible.
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Abbas Yousif’s multimedia works are made from calligraphy and Arabic alphabet. The Arabic letters are charged with explosive graphic symbols, which are like “spells” and aesthetically abstract. He applies different colors, printing techniques, collage, pastes, huge canvas, zinc etching on zinc, copper and silkscreen in his process.
Arab Art
Bahrain Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Art
Habibah Sheikh
Jordanian Art
Mediterranean Art
Mitli Mitlak
Multimedia
Painting
Right to Live
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) Exhibition
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Habibah (Biba) Sheikh (project director, writer, curator, producer, activist) <br /><br /><strong>Visual Artists</strong> <br />Hani Alqam (Jordan) <br />Hassan Al Meer (Oman) <br />Wael Darweish (Egypt) <br />Mohammad El Howajri (Palestine) <br />Sinan Hussein (Iraq) <br />Thameur Mejri (Tunisia) <br />May Murad (Palestine) <br />Ahmed Nagy (Egypt) <br />Lucas Paleocrassas (Greece) <br />Habibah Sheikh (U.S.A/Lebanon) <br />Klaudja Sulaj (Albania) <br />Basel Uraiqat (Jordan) <br />Abbas Yousif (Bahrain) <br /><br /><strong>Photographer</strong> <br />Andrea Rude
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2018-2020
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Jordan<br />Oman <br />Egypt<br />Palestine <br />Iraq<br />Tunisia<br />Palestine <br />Egypt <br />Greece <br />Lebanon <br />Albania <br />Jordan <br />Bahrain
Description
An account of the resource
Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) is a visual and literary exhibition about Islamic Internal Reflections in a Modern World. It is a culmination of writer, performer, director, and curator Habibah (Biba) Sheikh’s collaborations with thirteen Mediterranean and Arab-world artists, many of whom are refugees. As a collective, they created a body of work that weaves her poetic theatre texts, shared immigrant experiences, and testimonies about their communities and neighboring countries into visual works of art. Collectively, they illuminate stories of indignation, systemic discouragement, human trafficking, gender biases, exodus, and survival of life as human flotsam in an ever-changing, turbulent political ocean. Together with Sheikh, the artists are discussing Refugees, America, and Cultural Hybrid Theories.
Besides Sheikh, the artists comprising the collective, many of whom are current residents of occupied territories and refugee camps, include: Hani Alqam (Jordan), Thameur Mejri (Tunisia), Sinan Hussein (Iraq), Taghlib Oweis (Jordan), Wael Darweish (Egypt), Ahmed Nagy (Egypt), Klaudja Sulaj (Albania), Lucas Paleocrassas (Greece), Abbas Yousif (Bahrain), Basel Uraiqat (Jordan), Mohammed Al Hawajri (Palestine), Haitham Khatib (Syria), May Murad (Palestine), Hassan Meer (Oman).
These specific artists, working in different mediums and different countries, are connected through a common literary narrative, but each depicts their varied experiences and identities in distinctive ways, styles, and mediums. Ultimately, these works symbolize a celebration of survival and perseverance, of community, and of culture, and witness how the artists' situations reverberate with refugees worldwide.
Touring Exhibitions 2018-2020
N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan
Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Third Avenue Playhouse, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Peeler Art Museum, Depauw, Indiana
Mitli Mitlak’s artworks were brought to life as a theater production, directed by Habibah Sheikh; Part 1 is titled "Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)," and Part 2 is titled "Right to Live."
Relation
A related resource
Right to Live
Type
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Landscape paintings, abstract paintings, contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture, film, video, video portraits, mixed media
Rights
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Rights remain with the artists.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Refugees, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Contemporary Art, Mediterranean Fire, Jordan, Oman, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Palestine, Greece, Lebanon, Albania, Bahrain
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Mixed Media
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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The Soul Of Light, by Abbas Yousif (Bahrain)
Creator
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Abbas Yousif (Bahrain)
Contributor
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
Date
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2018
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Painting Was Made In The Artist's Resident Country Of Bahrain
Format
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jpeg 40 x 40
Relation
A related resource
Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)
Language
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English
Rights
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Rights Remain With Artist
Description
An account of the resource
The Soul of Light was created in response to poetic theatre texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the Mitli Mitlak exhibition. In the text, a character named Ruba experiences the destruction of war firsthand and becomes a refugee in the process.
This painting represents a scene in Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me). There is a mythical character called ‘Spirit Master’, who separates Ruba’s spirit from her lifeless body, and conducts a soul migration ceremony for her to go to the light in the ‘Out of Life’. Abbas Yousif’s painting overlaps the below two sentences spoken by the Spirit Master, in painted Arabic letters:
Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), Act 1 Scene 4
Spirit Master: “The Darkness Of These Waters Shall Be Cast With A Light.
I Come To Bless The Soul Of Light.”
Abbas Yousif’s multimedia works are made from calligraphy and the Arabic alphabet. The Arabic letters are charged with explosive graphic symbols, which are like “spells” and aesthetically abstract. He applies different colors, printing techniques, collage, pastes, huge canvas, zinc etching on zinc, copper, and silkscreen in his process.
Abbas Yousif
Ahmed Nagy
Arab Art
Bahrain Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Art
Habibah Sheikh
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Photography
Right to Live
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