The artist spent 24 hours with each of four women—Rogine, Waad, Hanin, and Zeina—in the cities where they now live: Zutphen, Oslo, Washington DC, and Sharjah respectively. All four of them cannot live anymore in their countries of origin, Syria and Lebanon. Together, they share a moment of cooking, rolling on the floors of their new cities, talking about life, nothing and everything, their exile and their continuous aims. This screening presents the chapters featuring Rogine and Waad.
Mounira Al Solh (b. 1978, Lebanon, lives and works between Beirut and Amsterdam) is a visual artist whose practice spans video and installation, painting and drawing, text and publishing, embroidery, and performance. Her work faces personal daily life matters, attempts of survivals, feminist issues, ongoing conflicts, patterns of micro-history, and bears witness to the impact of conflict and displacement. Her work has been shown at Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Germany (2022); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2020); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2018); and The Art Institute Chicago (2018); Sharjah Biennial (2023); Busan Biennale (2022); Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2020); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2020); Documenta 14, Kassel and Athens (2017); Venice Biennale (2015); and 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009), among others. She is the recipient of the ABN AMRO Art Award (2023), the Uriôt Prize from the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2007), and the Videobrasil jury prize for her video Rawane’s Song (2007).
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