グッゲンハイム美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (グッゲンハイム美術館Instagram)「Mounira Al Solh’s work addresses political and sociological issues surrounding identity, displacement, immigration, and feminism related to—and as a consequence of—growing up moving between Lebanon and Syria in an attempt to avoid the Syrian and broader Middle East conflicts. Her direct experiences prompted Al Solh to record refugees’ personal stories in order to prevent them from being obliterated from history as well as to memorialize the tradition of storytelling forbidden under certain dictatorial conditions. “My specialty was to make peasants’ haircut, but they obliged me to work till midnight often,” is a series of hand- and machine-stitched unique embroideries on which the artist combines stitched portraits as well as words—excerpts from conversations held with refugees, exchanges that also inspire the artist’s formal assortment of fabrics. The two works seen above are portraits of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, recounting their lived experiences of the war. The first work features a group of students accompanied by text denouncing the purposefully unequal system set in place by the Syrian government to discourage their application to universities, preventing a new generation of students from getting a degree. In the second work, a solitary man recounts his personal experience of exile that began in 1989 when, at the age of four, he fled the Lebanese Civil War to live with his grandmother in Syria, who is portrayed in the background under a nondescript flag. Assistant Curator @ylinkabarotto notes, “These two works are the first of Al Solh’s to enter the Guggenheim Collection, complementing the museum’s contemporary holdings of works that address political instability, the contemporary precariousness of borders, and the ways in which our current world is changed- and perhaps even defined - by the worldwide refugee crisis." #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth __ Artwork: “My specialty was to make peasants’ haircut, but they obliged me to work till midnight often” (2015-17) Purchased with funds contributed by the Young Collectors Council, 2017 #MouniraAlSolh #GuggenheimCollection #Guggenheim」3月29日 2時51分