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ArteEast's Virtual Gallery aims to create an
on-line presence for emerging as well as established artists operating
within and outside the Middle East. An advisory board comprised
of international artists and critics will select one artist's body
of work, up to 20 images, to be featured every three months on ArteEast's
website. |
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| FEATURED ARTIST: Annabel Daou | October,
2006 |
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ArteEast
is pleased to feature recent works by Annabel Daou in ink and pencil
on paper. These works explore the relationships between language,
meaning, landscape, and politics with an eye to the productive misunderstandings
that emerge in processes of translation. Through the intense scrawling
of texts in both Arabic and English -- including historical literary
and political texts, and texts transcribed from their original language
– the artist challenges us to deal with the uncomfortable
feeling of knowing and not knowing different histories and cultures.
Political dimensions to the work are suggested by the arrangement
of texts in landscape forms, and by titles such as in lebanon
we have no bomb shelters, give me liberty or give me death,
and America. But the complicated personal and linguistic
process of translation refuses any easy interpretations. It forces
us to look for clarity not in stock phrases or representations of
any one culture or history, but rather in the “space between
meaning and non-meaning,” as the artist says. Daou, originally
from Lebanon, lives and works in New York. |
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| Comments or feedback
on the Virtual Gallery? We would like to hear your thoughts
on our exhibitions. Email us at jwinegar@arteeast.org. |
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