Wafa Hourani
Wafa Hourani belongs to Palestine and he lives in Ramallah. Among the many well known artists of middle east, he is thus perhaps the only one who stays in his war torn country while practicing his art. Wafa Hourani is deeply affected by the crisis of the middle –east. His works are direct reflections of his times.
Hourani makes small miniaturized houses, city-scapes, out of card boards, wood, and other material. He then uses electrical circuits to light them and the resulting models look like cities at night affected by the scare of war. He also uses visual images through film rolls run constantly at the windows of his cardboard houses. In a way his works look apocalyptic and it is this very quality that makes his works so intensely attractive.
Hourani has exhibited in many countries outside Palestine and Middle-East. He has also worked with Charles Saatchi and his exhibition in London along with the other important artist of middle east had been very widely written about.
2 comments:
Wafa Hoirani is the biggest joke of the new arab artists - firstly he has never made any other work worth thnking about and sadly plays himself as "representative" of the Middle Eastern problematic. It is certainly discomforting that western curators come to a compromise with the variety of productions and themes developed by Arab artists, oversimplifying a panorama that is much richer. But it is definitely more disturbing when that very same approach is embraced by Middle Eastern curators, who should try to break the conventional, still stereotyped perspective that western art specialists usually attribute to Arab contemporary art. Hourani is total crap - he plays his deep affected bull... he is a player. Nothing authentic about him or this rubbish he rehashes..
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