Mess-take

Collection Series - (Re) Narrate : A Visual Commentary on Colonial Narratives in the Levant & Africa

Chapter 4: Mess-take / Collection: (Re) Narrate

130 X 100 cm - Oil, Acrylic, Thread, Gold leaf on Canvas

This artwork speaks of the untruth claimed by the Western narrative to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 & the state sponsored repression which have shaped and reshaped the country; for “Oil”.

Possession of WMDs was cited by the US as the primary motivation instigating the War in Iraq, which was later reported by the US to be a “mistake”.

The artwork “Mess-take” is domesticated by symbols of war & greed against indigenous symbols of the land: flowers, fruit, rivers of Tigris & Euphrates, Ishtar gate, palm trees. The landscape represents the land as a chess board where games of war were played by Western powers, and the stitching on the canvas intends to seam and repair the land torn apart by war.
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يمتلئ العمل الفني برموز الحرب والجشع ضد رموز الأرض الأصيله: الزهور والفواكه وأنهار دجلة والفرات وبوابة عشتار و أشجار النخيل. و يمثل العمل الأرض كلوحة شطرنج حيث لعبت القوى الغربية ألعاب الحرب ، و تحاول الخياطة على التضاريس إصلاح و لصق الأرض الممزقة من الحرب.

100 × 130 سم –

 زيت ، أكريليك ، خيط ، ورق ذهب على قماش

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