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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
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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
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."
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Right to Live
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Landscape paintings, abstract paintings, contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture, film, video, video portraits, mixed media
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Rights remain with the artists.
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Refugees, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Contemporary Art, Mediterranean Fire, Jordan, Oman, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Palestine, Greece, Lebanon, Albania, Bahrain
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Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden) 3, by May Murad (Palestine)
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May Murad
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Biba Sheik, Literary Text, Curator
Description
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May Murad's series of paintings, Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden), were 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.
Murad is saying in the paintings, that there is no future in this place. Like Murad, the character, ‘Ruba’, is saying in this painting, “I plan to travel, without any thought of return.” If Murad leaves Palestine, She might not be able to see her mother and father, sisters, and brothers, ever again. In the paintings, it is as though Ruba prepares herself psychologically in this seclusion to make a move, to get out. She knows she might end up a refugee.
To Murad, the character of ‘Ruba’ in Mitli Mitlak (Like You Like Me) is confined to a large prison. “I live here,” she says, “but nothing of me belongs to this place.” Her paintings are the “feeling of Gaza Palestine,” of an uncertain, mysterious place where the literary character, Ruba, remains, in postures of broken dreams:
Act 1, Scene 1
“Come to the window
Look outside,
Hot tanks on the street,
Mountains of rubble,
The building collapsed from top to bottom,
Over flooded narrow streets.
Oh Father, my burned city,
the bloodshed of when our homeland was seized."
Both Murad and Ruba search for meaning. “When there was no way out,” the artist says,” I demanded to be left alone, and the body seemed the most beautiful thing.” Murad elaborates, “The paintings describe the physical body as a portion of nature. Its image is like a tree or a mountain, a piece of the whole that speaks for and about all people.”
Murad made these paintings by first taking photographs of herself with a cell phone, near a hanging light bulb, in a room where she slept, painted, and ate.
(Above text taken from an essay in the exhibition catalogue, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), which provides an overview of contemporary Arab world art and current regional and global trends of thought, and also illustrates the interrelations between Biba Sheikh’s literary text and each visual artist’s work, as it relates to the exhibition).
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2018
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Gaza, Palestine
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jpeg., 48 x 78 3/4, (inches) Acrylic on Canvas.
Relation
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)
Rights
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Rights remain With Artist
Arab Women Artists
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Palestinian Art
Flower of Freedom
Habibah Sheikh
Mediterranean Fire
Refugee Art
Right to Live
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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
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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
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."
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Right to Live
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Landscape paintings, abstract paintings, contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture, film, video, video portraits, mixed media
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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
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Painting
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Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden) 2, by May Murad (Palestine)
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May Murad
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
Description
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<p><span>May Murad's series of paintings, <em>Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden), </em>were 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. </span><br /><br />In the paintings, Murad is saying that there is no future in this place. Like Murad, ‘Ruba’, the literary character from <em>Mitli Mitlak (Like You Like Me),</em> is saying in this painting: “I plan to travel, without any thought of return.” If Murad leaves Palestine, she might not be able to see her mother and father, sisters, and brothers, ever again. In the paintings, it is as though Ruba prepares herself psychologically in this seclusion to make a move, to get out. She knows she might end up a refugee.</p>
<p>To Murad, the character of Ruba is confined to a large prison. “I live here,” she says, “but nothing of me belongs to this place.” Murad’s paintings are the “feeling of Gaza Palestine,” of an uncertain, mysterious place where the literary character, Ruba, remains, in postures of broken dreams:</p>
<p>Act 1, Scene 1</p>
<p>“Come to the window<br />Look outside,<br />Hot tanks on the street,<br />Mountains of rubble,<br />The building collapsed from top to bottom,<br />Over flooded narrow streets.<br />Oh Father, my burned city,<br />the bloodshed of when our homeland was seized."</p>
<p>Both Murad and Ruba search for meaning. “When there was no way out,” the artist says, “I demanded to be left alone, and the body seemed the most beautiful thing.” Murad elaborates, “The paintings describe the physical body as a portion of nature. Its image is like a tree or a mountain, a piece of the whole that speaks for and about all people."</p>
<p>Murad made the paintings in <em>Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden),</em> by first taking photographs of herself with a cell phone near a hanging light bulb, in a room where she slept, painted, and ate.</p>
<p>(Above text taken from an essay in the <em>Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)</em> exhibition catalogue, which provides an overview of contemporary Arab world art and current regional and global trends of thought. The text also illustrates the interrelations between the painting and Biba Sheikh’s literary text on which the artwork is based.)</p>
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2018
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Gaza, Palestine
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jpeg., 48 x 78 3/4, (inches) Acrylic on Canvas.
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Series: Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden)
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English
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Rights remain With Artist
Arab Women Artists
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Palestinian Art
Flower of Freedom
Habibah Sheikh
May Murad
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Palestinian Art
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Separated From Every Garden
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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
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
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Right to Live
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Landscape paintings, abstract paintings, contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture, film, video, video portraits, mixed media
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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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Painting
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Flower of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden) 1, by May Murad (Palestine)
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May Murad
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
Description
An account of the resource
May Murad's series of paintings, Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden), were 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 first hand and becomes a refugee in the process.
Murad is clear, “Most important to my people are the borders coming off.” Likewise, Ruba, as represented by Murad, urgently needs to be free. She longs to shed the manufactured boundaries of well-guarded concrete crowned with razor wire, along with the ‘norms’ of modern existence that wrap chainlink around her life’s trajectory. “Ruba is close to me and represents Arab women in a universal way. Ruba is within all people. She wants to go out, to be free, to talk, to just make any move that could change her life. When I initially began, I wanted to paint the state of all people wanting freedom.” Within Ruba, ‘borders are coming off’ where phantasms, night visions, and apparitions are manifesting in the space around her. Ruba is experiencing the faraway world as she simultaneously feels like a stranger to herself. Her remoteness makes it seem that she has no friend, as she embodies visions from her third eye:
Act 1, Scene 1
Ruba: (Twirling with high voices) Maaa Maaa! Maaa Maaa! Maaa! Maaa! (She becomes a mermaid at sea. She is laying on a rock, calling and calling to the ships with a siren-like voice). (Ruba sits up and writes passionately in her diary. The writing is moving her arm...it is writing alone.) (Ruba normalizes rapidly. She is moving happily through the space).
Murad made the paintings in Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden), by first taking photographs of herself with a cell phone near a hanging light bulb, in a room where she slept, painted, and ate. One year later, Murad fled Palestine, became a refugee, and is now exiled in Paris, France.
(Above text taken from an essay in the exhibition catalogue, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), which provides an overview of contemporary Arab world art and current regional and global trends of thought, and also illustrates the interrelations between Biba Sheikh’s literary text and each visual artist’s work, as it relates to the exhibition).
Date
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2018
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Gaza, Palestine
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jpeg., 48 x 78 3/4, (inches) Acrylic on Canvas.
Relation
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)
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English
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Rights Remain With Artist
Arab Women Artists
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Palestinian Art
Flower of Freedom
Habibah Sheikh
May Murad
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Palestinian Art
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Separated From Every Garden
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