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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
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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.
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)
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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
Coverage
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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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Extreme, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
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Sinan Hussein
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
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2018
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The painting was made In the artist's host country: Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
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85 x 63 in.
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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 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."
Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Arab Art
Habibah Sheikh
Iraqi Art
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
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.
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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
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Painting
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Sectarian Asylum, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
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Sinan Hussein
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
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2018
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Painting Was Made In The Artist's Host Country: Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
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jpeg., 11 x 59 in.
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)
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English
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Description
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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.
Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Arab Art
Habibah Sheikh
Iraqi Art
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Sinan Hussein
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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
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.
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Painting
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Rabab and Goats, by Sinan Hussein (Iraq)
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Sinan Hussein
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
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2018
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Painting Was Made In the Artists Place of Residence in Boston Mass. U.S.A.
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jpeg., 85 x 63 in.
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English
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Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Arab Art
Habibah Sheikh
Iraqi Art
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
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."
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
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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Painting
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Refuge 8, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
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Basel Uraiqat
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
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2018
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Painting Was Made In The Artist's Resident Country Of Jordan
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jpeg., 40 x 40 (inches)
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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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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!”
African Art
Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Art
Habibah Sheikh
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Tunisian Art
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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
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
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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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Refuge 7, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
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Basel Uraiqat
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
Date
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2018
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Painting Was Made In The Artist's Resident Country Of Jordan
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jpeg., 40 x 40 (inches)
Relation
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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
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!”
African Art
Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Art
Habibah Sheikh
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Tunisian Art
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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
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
Painting
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Refuge 6, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
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Basel Uraiqat
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
Date
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2018
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Painting Was Made In The Artist's Resident Country Of Jordan
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jpeg., 40 x 40 (inches)
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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
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!”
African Art
Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Art
Habibah Sheikh
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Tunisian Art
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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
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
The nature or genre of the resource
Landscape paintings, abstract paintings, contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture, film, video, video portraits, mixed media
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
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
Painting
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Title
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Refuge 5, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
Creator
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Basel Uraiqat
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 Jordan
Format
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jpeg., 40 x 40 (inches)
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
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!”
African Art
Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Art
Habibah Sheikh
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Tunisian Art
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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
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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Refuge 4, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
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Basel Uraiqat
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Biba Sheikh, Literary Text, Curator
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2018
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Painting Was Made In The Artist's Resident Country Of Jordan
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jpeg., 40 x 40 in.
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Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)
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English
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Rights Remain With Artist
Description
An account of the resource
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!”
African Art
Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Art
Habibah Sheikh
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Tunisian Art
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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
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
Painting
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Title
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Refuge 3, by Basel Uraiqat (Jordan)
Creator
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Basel Uraiqat
Contributor
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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 Jordan
Format
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jpeg., 40 x 40 inches
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
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!”
African Art
Arab Art
Biba Sheikh
Contemporary Art
Habibah Sheikh
Mediterranean Art
Mediterranean Fire
Mitli Mitlak
Painting
Refugee
Refugee Art
Right to Live
Tunisian Art
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