 This exhibition is based on a plan created by the American artist, Lorraine Serena. Her plan is for the creation of a global and borderless community composed of female artists from around the world. In line with this aim, participating artists were each given a small "wooden box" (Approximately 5.5 x 9 x 6cm). The artists used many different approaches…drawing the box, gluing pictures on it, burying it, smashing it and then recreating it…to produce unique works, with much originality. The box symbolizes a bride's hope chest, the womb, a tomb, etc.. The Palestinian edition of this exhibition consists of five works of art produced from these small boxes by five Palestinian female artists and they are: Vera Tamari, Rudayna Qasrawi, Dina Ghazal, Tina Sherwell & Natasha Ma'ani.
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This piece of art represents a woman with a steadfast
and proud posture. She sits and carries in her lap the continuity
of life: her own children. Her face reads of dignity. She carries
on her head a pot with a dove: the symbol of love and peace. She creates
and conveys life, pride and peace. Dina Ghazzal |
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My love for boxes goes way back in time… It was
triggered in me as a child when I was enchanted by all the silken
colors, embroidery and sweets that came out of my grandmother's old
wooden box… And at that time, we lived in a yet bigger stone
box that reeked of lemon & jasmine flowers. The color of its cover
was interchangeable, ranging between bright sky blue to a shade of
azure and it seemed as if it were decorated with stars. But there
was always someone who broke my boxes that contained me and I them…
Rudayna Qasrawi -2003 |
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What comes out of this box from magic, whispers, screams,
images and emptiness… is Life. Rudayna Qasrawi - 2003 |
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Tina Sherwell |
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Natasha Ma'ani |
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Stone upon stone is our house on top of the hill White
in sunlit dawn and in the moonlight green And betwixt one night and
another, We know nothing but waiting. From July in the City, a collection
of poems by Palestinian artist, novelist and poet, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
– 1959 STONE UPON STONE In these devastating times of deliberate, pitiless destruction of homes, history and peoples, I defiantly built an edifice of stone to celebrate the future. It is a shrine, a shelter, an obelisk for all those peoples and countries who's future has been brutally marred and who are denied the chance of generating personal and collective memories. For as every stone touches another stone, so does memory: it is created by ageless unbreakable bond between the past, present and the future. Vera Tamari – Palestine 2003 |
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