Winter 2013
Ismael
By Ismael, ArteEast Featured Artist Winter 2013 | Gallery The factory of forgetting and the factory of Time The images are the raw material for sculpting other images. Images are everywhere; they are so numerous that they create a parallel world. It is not machines or aliens who will occupy the land. Images will do. Perhaps…
Marianne Catzaras
By Marianne Catzaras, ArteEast Featured Artist Winter 2013 | Gallery To the question asked “why do I photograph?” the answer is plural, Yet obsessed with the same concern, that of giving substance To unusual and familiar apparitions playing along with me throughout my journey. Transvestites, deported, fools, nonconformist wandering beings, randomly caught Through chance encounters or…
Meriem Bouderbela
By Meriem Bouderbela, ArteEast Featured Artist Winter 2013 | Gallery Mon travail de plasticienne a toujours été marqué par ma double origine, tunisienne et française. La culture arabo-musulmane m’empêchait la figuration humaine ; la culture occidentale l’exposait au contraire jusque dans les caricatures de l’Orientalisme. Entre les deux univers, j’ai orienté mes recherches plastiques vers l’interface,…
Fall 2013
Nuha Innab
By Nuha Innab Fall 2013 | ArteZine The reality of what you see is directly proportional to your imagination, for the reality I live in this moment is perceived differently by me than it’s perceived by you, transforming itself into a memory which varies depending on the messenger and the place. What are we in the…
Fakhri El Ghezal
By Fakhri El Ghezal, ArteEast Featured Artist Fall, Winter 2013 | Gallery This work does mirror both a subjective and an ironic reaction to the political scheme ruling the world, and certainly Tunisia. This toil interrogates us on the limits and the power of the media, wars and their roles in provoking conflicts, including that of…
By Fakhri El Ghezal, ArteEast Featured Artist Fall 2013 | Gallery Sidi is a designation, a polite form, one we used to denominate with prophets, saints, cheikhs , educators, professors, the elderly, the experimented folks… I think that “Sidi” cannot be translated to English. It combines both “Mister” and “Merciful.” The protagonists of this series, ones…
Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi, Berenice Saliou, Yasmina Reggad
By Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi, Berenice Saliou and Yasmina Reggad Fall 2013 | ArteZine This issue marks the fifth installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Virtual Gallery that spotlights artists from the Maghreb leading up to the 2014 edition of the Marrakech Biennial. Each subsequent gallery will showcase artists who deal with the every day in their work to…
Dictaphone Group
By Dictaphone Group Fall 2013 | ArteZine “The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city more after our heart’s desire… The freedom to make and remake our cities is one of the most precious yet most neglected…
By Dictaphone Group Fall 2013 | ArteZine We met Abu Hussein when we were sitting once at Abu Adal’s kiosk in “Dalieh” in Beirut. He told us that he is one of the ten fishermen who were evicted from their sea-front rooms that were located under the Grand Café, a café on the southern coast of…
Dictaphone Group, Dia Saleh
By Dictaphone Group and Dia Saleh Fall 2013 | ArteZine “The sea was neither stolen, nor looted (manhouba).It was bestowed (mawhouba)” Perched on a bench next to a rickety wooden fisherman’s hut by the sea, sits a man in his 60s, wearing a grin and traditional white Bahraini headscarf. Only ten years ago, if the bench stayed where…
