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Artist: Marwan Sahamrani |
Curator: Mahita El Bacha Urieta |
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Marwan Sahmarani, Lebanon
The Feast of the Damned
Curator: Mahita El Bacha Urieta, Spain/Lebanon
The Feast of the Damned is an installation integrating painting, drawing, ceramics and film inspired by Hell: Fall of the Condemned Ones, by Rubens. Sahmarani has created a three-dimensional space in which the themes of martyrdom and expiation are dealt with in a way that resembles the millennia-old techniques of fresco painting in combination with contemporary media. The result is a poignant and intimately humane artwork of universal resonance and powerful visual and emotional impact.
At first glance, the thematic of The Feast of the Damned may seem somewhat removed from today’s Arab context. However, the themes of the work are rooted in the cultural traditions of the Middle East region. They are also part of its contemporary socio–cultural reality, where various notions of evil are activated – from inside and outside Arab countries - in political discourse at the service of agendas of control and violence, in association to gender, certain ideologies and civil society.
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