Cease

2016
75 x 125cm
Oil and clay on canvas

City

2016
50 x 90cm
Oil and clay on canvas

Lake

2015
35 x 90cm
Oil and clay on canvas

Village

2016
50 x 50cm

Oil on canvas

Sardine

2015
50 x 50cm

Oil on canvas

What's Real? (This could literally happen anywhere)

2016

Video: 26sec

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This exhibition is a first step of a long-term project of challenging the images the media portray. More and more the reports from the media are staged and biased making it difficult to know what the reality is.

 

Deliberately picking on the current situation in Syria allows for the exploration to happen. Each of the paintings is inspired and based on documentaries from the 70’s by a Syrian filmmaker and activist Omar Amiralay. 

 

The films are of the day to day lives of Syrians, their conversations, worries and with an undertone of Amiralay’s political view.