This exhibition is about…Visions and dreams against oppression and discrimination that I experienced under occupation and curfews… A story and experience at the same time…..· What does the artist paint in such critical moments?· What does the artist paint in the moments in which the occupier uses the worst forms of human repression?What does a curfew do to people…?How does the artist face such moments… when all we can hear is the sounds of bullets and bulldozers that kill our dreams and stories…He paints and paints a scream that disturbs the occupier searching for what a man needs to live in peace on this land… we want to live in peace like the rest of people on this earth…My scream that is in one hundred forms is in reality a dream that beats with the life we’re looking for… A life full of dignity, freedom and peace….The way of war or destruction or oppression is one….And in this exhibition, I tried to light one hundred ways of freedom and peace…. designed in black…Samih Abu Zakieh
When we speak about peace through the peace paintings, some think that we are about to restart a new peace process in the Middle East. I would like to ask the whole world: Do you want peace for us? If yes ,the paintings are telling you that there are 100 ways for peace from Palestine. The way of war is, as you know, only one way. This is the philosophy of our exhibition. It is a point of view, it is an artist experience drown by a black pen. We hope you will get the message. Samih abu zakieh
Sunday, January 20, 2008
one hundred ways of freedom and peace
This exhibition is about…Visions and dreams against oppression and discrimination that I experienced under occupation and curfews… A story and experience at the same time…..· What does the artist paint in such critical moments?· What does the artist paint in the moments in which the occupier uses the worst forms of human repression?What does a curfew do to people…?How does the artist face such moments… when all we can hear is the sounds of bullets and bulldozers that kill our dreams and stories…He paints and paints a scream that disturbs the occupier searching for what a man needs to live in peace on this land… we want to live in peace like the rest of people on this earth…My scream that is in one hundred forms is in reality a dream that beats with the life we’re looking for… A life full of dignity, freedom and peace….The way of war or destruction or oppression is one….And in this exhibition, I tried to light one hundred ways of freedom and peace…. designed in black…Samih Abu Zakieh
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