Untitled 3

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 firsthand and becomes a refugee in the process. This work uses the imagery of violence to evoke the emotional and physical vulnerability of certain Mediterranean themes...such as being without asylum.

Act 1, Scene 4, Mitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me):

Zicco and Militia Man enter.
Zicco: Stop dancing!!
Lokman: Nevvvverrrr! (pause) Come dance with me. I want to dance with the enemy!! (pause) See
the steps? It’s an Iraqi dance!!!
Zicco: Kurdish refugees! What I need are people like them.
(to the refugees) There’s a job!
Hani: I will do anything. What is it?
Zicco: Spys for Iraq. Secretly against your Syrian friends.
Hyatt: I will not. Kill me first.
Ismail: (to Hyatt) SHH!! (to Zicco) Yes!
Lokman: But ...If...they find out, we will be put into prison.
Zicco: You will be disguised, when you go to get the bombs.
Ismail: What Bombs?
Zicco: For the next battle. The Iraqi military and the Lebanese phalangists are uniting to throw the Syrian occupiers.
Ismail: No, no, forget it. We can't do it.
Zicco: I will find somebody else. (to Militia man) Line them up. Finish them off.

In Mejri’s series, subjective beings and politicized bodies are in collisions and obstacles in intersections covering the canvas. Without objectivity, an extreme situation occurs. Deep meaning arises out from the collision points, because of a fractal structure after the crash. The metaphor of the child in its early years representing the body of the law with apparatuses provides a public experience of sensitive feelings and emotion in each painting... transmitting happiness, surprise, and the feeling of being able to create life from the Metaphors of uprising, death and war.