Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden) 3, by May Murad (Palestine)
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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Spirit Through the Mirror, by Klaudja Sulaj (Albania)
Klaudja Sulaj, Albania, Albanian Art, contemporary art, Habibah Sheikh, Biba Sheikh, Right to Live, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), Like You, Like Me, Jordanian Art, Mediterranean Art,Mediterranean Fire, digital print, photography
This work was created in response to poetic 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 first hand and becomes a refugee in the process.
After Ruba is stabbed, a delegate from the out of life enters, accompanied by his assistants. The delegate performs the soul migration ceremony, so the double of Ruba leaves the lifeless for the ‘out of life’.
Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), Act 1 Scene 4
Assistant 1 and 2: Charcoal! Ashes! Moribund flames! Weakness in the abysmal
That lays between your breath and your voice!
Delegate: The soul has won! The internal rain…has washed…has put out the origins of the pain. The soul wants to speak! Open your mouth! Separate the mandibular! (Pause) Listen to me! (Pause) . It is in darkness that you may find the light!
Assistant 1: Open your mouth!
Delegate: I will separate the words from your voice.
And that is you, somewhere in between. Go to the sun!
Assistant 1: Each territory of the earth is a region within you!
Assistant 2: The infinity of space is inside!
Assistant 2: The infinity of space is inside! Your mouth has been opened.
Delegate: You let yourself go from society. You put it in the fire, enabling me to bring the rain when you were burning. I put out the flames, I brought the rain. You will not be colonized, anymore!! You may light the light of the lights.
(The delegate, assistants, Carlos, Ruba and party members all remove their masks and are pleased to have improvised a new scene for their play).
Klaudja Sulaj uses photography and print as a ‘machine’ that randomly delivers meaning through stints, glitches, and random machine-layering of images. She turns toward the Mediterranean and is turning the Mediterranean into truth about the meaning of being. Inspired by the notion of ‘cradle of civilization’, she combines her attitude of functioning as a seer, an empathic, channeler of spirits, mirroring doubles, and conjured images from the ‘out of life.’ In her works, the ‘out of life’ apparitions seem to say, “ I was damaged, but I’m a shaman. The soul has won. I have put out the origins of the pain. Listen to me. My wounds have the power to heal because I healed myself."
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Feminist Portrayal of a Woman Taking Her Life, by Klaudja Sulaj (Albania)
This artwork is double exposure photography and graphics. Ontological and silencing. The artwork represents the character, Ruba, in Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) who is oppressed, and stuck being abused, because she has nowhere to go, and because there is a war and poverty all around. It is fueled with the anger of being disgraced and about a person who is not being heard. By committing suicide with the man’s hand on the knife, Ruba, as portrayed by Sulaj, decides her legacy, when beforehand, she had no choice and no say.
In Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), Act 1, Scene 2, Ruba, before taking his hand that’s holding the knife, and stabbing herself, says:
Ruba: My spirit
mummied inside
Will leave my body to fly.
like a bird.
The vibration
is calling me to get to
a higher frequency,
I can feel the parabolic waves.
I see the ethereal curtains,
from where behind, the truth resides…
(The audience then discovers that this suicide was just a theatre rehearsal, not a real suicide).
The artwork serves as a protective eye or healing shield in the space where it is hung. As many of Sulaj’s works, it seems to be created as part of a daily battle to counter the anti forces...the dark side of the self.
(The above text was taken from an essay in the Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) exhibition catalogue, which provides an overview of contemporary Mediterranean and 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.)
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Untitled 1, by Klaudja Sulaj (Albania)
Klaudja Sulaj uses photography and print as a ‘machine’ that randomly delivers meaning through stints, glitches, and random machine-layering of images. She turns toward the Mediterranean and is turning the Mediterranean into truth about the meaning of being. Inspired by the notion of ‘cradle of civilization’, she combines her attitude of functioning as a seer, an empathic, channeler of spirits, conjuring images from the ‘out of life.’ In her works seem to say, “I’m a shaman. The soul has won. I have put out the origins of the pain. Listen to me My wounds have the power to heal, because I healed myself”.
(Ruba [character in Mitli Mitlak] begins to see a spirit coming back from the dead)
Ruba: (to reflection) Do you see her?! (To spirit) Come! (To reflection) tell her to come...
Reflection: (as the ego) I am the queen and I don’t have to call anybody. I don’t believe in bodies.
Ruba: Please tell her! Tell her to come! (The spirit dances.) I am extremely happy to see her, and all at once, infinitely sad that she is dead!
Reflection: I am the queen. I am the director. (Wanting to control) Look into my eyes!
Ruba: (taken back) She must be b-...she is ..is she...bad? That must be the ‘ego’. I don’t want this to get psychological. This is what I like. This is not reality...this is truth. All I know is what ‘they’ say: the ‘ego’ must die. (To the reflection) Death of you Queenie! (Ruba stabs the reflection over and over. As she kills the ego, she at the same time falls to the ground as though she is dying. She finds her way crawling to the chair to sit. Slowly she is able to stand up and walk. Little by little, she begins to dance and celebrate that she has bypassed her ego.)
The piece serves as a protective eye or healing shield in the space where it is hung. As many of Sulaj’s works, it seems to be created as part of a daily battle to counter the anti forces...the dark side of the self.
(The above text was taken from an essay in the Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me) exhibition catalogue, which provides an overview of contemporary Mediterranean and 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.)
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Extreme, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
This work was created in response to poetic texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the exhibition, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me). In the text, a character named Ruba experiences the destruction of war first hand and becomes a refugee in the process. The use of imagery and of violence evokes the emotional and physical vulnerability of certain Mediterranean themes...such as being without asylum.
In Sinan Hussein’s refugee paintings, the heaviness and the trauma of these experiences are constructed with powerful symbols that are very small, colorful, humble, yet extreme. He condenses three scenes into one or two paintings through symbolism. In Hussein’s refugee painting, the refugee is wearing a red glove on one hand, which for Hussein, is a symbol of politics: the glove of communism. He describes it as ‘how they amass people and tell them that all are treated equally, whether they are rich or poor...the same, animal or not animal, all the same herd. The zebra head worn by one figure is a symbol of world politics. This painting situates Mitli Mitlak during a civil war. One character has on yellow boots, worn when someone goes out to catch fish. “He is going out to kill; Kill the fish... Kill somebody...Kill”. What is being killed in the painting is a bull, reminding the viewer of the Spanish bullfights. This sacrificial animal is symbolizing refugee people. This stabbed, bludgeoned bull attached to and being wheeled around on a bicycle tire, reduces the refugee exodos to one symbol or image. (SULAJ) While elaborating on the image of the bull being stabbed, he says about refugees that flee, “War makers use people to fight in war, and afterward, they kill them.” Just as happened in Iraq, says Hussein, “they said, ‘we are coming to save the Iraqi people’.” After a quiet pause, he adds, “It’s just politics”. “They didn’t find anything dangerous in Iraq. It was all a lie."
In the painting, the donkey’s head is the mask of democracy, while the elephant in the party scene is the republican. “Again, I use it in the painting because they said they were bringing us democracy. In the exodos painting, titled ‘Extreme’ The light bulb under an umbrella expresses, what was promised to Iraq: “ We are coming here to bring the light to create a paradise on earth”. Hussein painted the scene to have it appear that the figures are outside, but they are not outside, because the characters are fenced in. He says, “Inside the world of this painting, the fence where the refugees are contained, is not as the barbed wire of refugee or Palestinian fences, It is an American picket fence."
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Sectarian Asylum, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
This work was created in response to poetic 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 first hand and becomes a refugee in the process. The use of imagery and of violence evokes the emotional and physical vulnerability of certain Mediterranean themes...such as being without asylum.
This painting visions the destruction of war with the destroyed city in burned and brown tones, where the blue sky is brighter than anything on the ground. Desolate spirits and 'out of life' souls are extending from the open hands of Mary, as others fly above her, and other 'out of life' beings, half-animal, are at her side. The intensities of pain and the electrical charges from the nervous system are connected to visions in the third eye. A refugee with colonized traits resembling a spirit from the 1800’s, is with people in his heart that give him happiness, even in the predicament of losing all. In his hands, a dead child. It seems this character is very confused...very far from himself. He seems to have worked so hard to create a Western appearance, and he seems to deny that his goals are destroyed and unattainable. He does not know himself, only the mediatized personality which he has created as a defense mechanism. He is posing for the camera with the dead child in hand. All accepting Mary enshrines him. The weeping creatures out of her hands are swollen flowers who are burnt out and exhausted. To view this Westernized refugee, makes one feel that it is only the beginning of a very vast journey that will entail much more turmoil...And will strip away his Western wing and dull his wide-eyed grin into a smile of sadness.
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Rabab and Goats, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
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Refuge 8, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
Basel Uraiqat's series of works, entitled, "Refuge," was created in response to poetic 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 first hand and becomes a refugee in the process. The use of imagery and of violence evokes the emotional and physical vulnerability of certain Mediterranean themes...such as being without asylum.
"Refuge" is Exodos from a physical point of view. “There is the feeling of weakness towards refugees, they are homeless. This artwork gives the imitation of falling and being on the periphery, " Says Basel Uraiqat. “I have this empathy that keeps building up. The important source is that it is a very bad situation for them. They are going through it during generations. Sometimes you think that it is their own fault... But they are stuck. You want to accommodate them, and want them to be free. The feeling of falling apart is significant. They were in a certain dignified and educated status, and something was pulled from under their feet. This free fall keeps them floating.”
In the vastness of the earth is a palette of tans and browns: the colors of this series of paintings that instill feelings of mystery, softness, and empathy (in the spectator). Yet cloudy whiteness shrouds over them, bringing notions of death in frosty wind. The solitude of being homeless, holding oneself tightly, waiting for dawn, sleeplessly, between ice and rock, in plastic tents, is expressed only through color and form. The vastness of rugged mountains absorbs the sobs of parents and children, painted as silhouettes and anoints suffering with the anodyne of faith/prayer coming from salvation camps, or walking in exodos. They are poised and elegant, for all is in God’s hands.
In Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), the nomadic crowd is walking, voices of faith and insistence are driving the body of people to move forward, to live on.
Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), Act 1, Scene 3
Our villages have been destroyed
Houses burned
We’re broken; Kicked out
And suddenly in a situation of having nothing
Some not being able to survive
We walked for days and weeks
The sacredness of families who
were ignored
Saying, “Over the great river! Over the green hills!
Over the mountains and seas!
put your foot down! Put your foot down!
Saying Put your foot down!
footstep by footstep.
To the rhythm! To the rhythm!”
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Refuge 7, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
Basel Uraiqat's series of works, entitled, "Refuge," was created in response to poetic 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 first hand and becomes a refugee in the process. The use of imagery and of violence evokes the emotional and physical vulnerability of certain Mediterranean themes...such as being without asylum.
"Refuge" is Exodos from a physical point of view. “There is the feeling of weakness towards refugees, they are homeless. This artwork gives the imitation of falling and being on the periphery, " Says Basel Uraiqat. “I have this empathy that keeps building up. The important source is that it is a very bad situation for them. They are going through it during generations. Sometimes you think that it is their own fault... But they are stuck. You want to accommodate them, and want them to be free. The feeling of falling apart is significant. They were in a certain dignified and educated status, and something was pulled from under their feet. This free fall keeps them floating.”
In the vastness of the earth is a palette of tans and browns: the colors of this series of paintings that instill feelings of mystery, softness, and empathy (in the spectator). Yet cloudy whiteness shrouds over them, bringing notions of death in frosty wind. The solitude of being homeless, holding oneself tightly, waiting for dawn, sleeplessly, between ice and rock, in plastic tents, is expressed only through color and form. The vastness of rugged mountains absorbs the sobs of parents and children, painted as silhouettes and anoints suffering with the anodyne of faith/prayer coming from salvation camps, or walking in exodos. They are poised and elegant, for all is in God’s hands.
In Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), the nomadic crowd is walking, voices of faith and insistence are driving the body of people to move forward, to live on.
Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), Act 1, Scene 3
Our villages have been destroyed
Houses burned
We’re broken; Kicked out
And suddenly in a situation of having nothing
Some not being able to survive
We walked for days and weeks
The sacredness of families who
were ignored
Saying, “Over the great river! Over the green hills!
Over the mountains and seas!
put your foot down! Put your foot down!
Saying Put your foot down!
footstep by footstep.
To the rhythm! To the rhythm!”
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Refuge 6, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
Basel Uraiqat's series of works, entitled, "Refuge," was created in response to poetic 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 first hand and becomes a refugee in the process. The use of imagery and of violence evokes the emotional and physical vulnerability of certain Mediterranean themes...such as being without asylum.
"Refuge" is Exodos from a physical point of view. “There is the feeling of weakness towards refugees, they are homeless. This artwork gives the imitation of falling and being on the periphery, " Says Basel Uraiqat. “I have this empathy that keeps building up. The important source is that it is a very bad situation for them. They are going through it during generations. Sometimes you think that it is their own fault... But they are stuck. You want to accommodate them, and want them to be free. The feeling of falling apart is significant. They were in a certain dignified and educated status, and something was pulled from under their feet. This free fall keeps them floating.”
In the vastness of the earth is a palette of tans and browns: the colors of this series of paintings that instill feelings of mystery, softness, and empathy (in the spectator). Yet cloudy whiteness shrouds over them, bringing notions of death in frosty wind. The solitude of being homeless, holding oneself tightly, waiting for dawn, sleeplessly, between ice and rock, in plastic tents, is expressed only through color and form. The vastness of rugged mountains absorbs the sobs of parents and children, painted as silhouettes and anoints suffering with the anodyne of faith/prayer coming from salvation camps, or walking in exodos. They are poised and elegant, for all is in God’s hands.
In Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), the nomadic crowd is walking, voices of faith and insistence are driving the body of people to move forward, to live on.
Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me), Act 1, Scene 3
Our villages have been destroyed
Houses burned
We’re broken; Kicked out
And suddenly in a situation of having nothing
Some not being able to survive
We walked for days and weeks
The sacredness of families who
were ignored
Saying, “Over the great river! Over the green hills!
Over the mountains and seas!
put your foot down! Put your foot down!
Saying Put your foot down!
footstep by footstep.
To the rhythm! To the rhythm!”
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