JUMANA ABBOUD
b. 1971 works in Jerusalem
Untitled, materials, fabric, watercolors, aquarels
More than anything I like to touch upon skin layers in my work: the
surfaces and what they reveal or do not reveal, the traces of form
and therefore of memory, the fragments of a story and the piecing
together of it.
The first part of this work involved creating drawings and paintings
of hearts and eyes. I was thinking about the term “wasla”
and I wanted to deliberately create works that represented connecting
forces. What followed were the pieces of various colored fabric being
stuffed into holes in a wall distributed across an entire space with
none left empty. A surface, when given another layer, not only changes
in visual form but also in meaning, the emptiness that once was is
now filled with another material and the identity of the space has
changed. What has been added to a particular surface is also the connecting
force that links us to the space and/or guides us to seeing its surface
in another light. |
