The Artist:
Mo’een Hassouna was born in Gaza, Jabalia. He graduated from
the Fine Arts Department, Oil Painting section, of Al Najah University
in Nablus. He had the opportunity to acquire professional experience
in the field of the Arts, for he has worked in several art-related
posts, the most recent being his current job as Visual Arts Coordinator
at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre. Therefore, we are glad,
at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, to present our colleague
and artist in his first exhibition, hoping that it would be a start
for his integration in the Palestinian Visual Arts movement.
The Exhibit:
"Between reality and the trivialities of imagination,
the idea entices, approaches, calls upon and roams around you. It
reminds you of a childhood that is with you and installed in you;
clinging to you like a shadow. It stirs up that voice that was always
heard like the sound of moaning in the depth of the well, waiting
for a passerby to succor and to quench you and to awaken in you
the soul of the fighter. For now you are in a battle where there
is no return or retreat, where all your strides are set forward.
So stand steadfast in every step and do not allow the wind to push,
defeat or shove you. Wake up. Do not sleep, for you have slept enough.
Remove that veil away from your face and go on, for soon you leave
behind the child and you grow old. And between those two realities,
the waiting remains like a hovering dark cloud over the heads of
all, so wait or do not wait at all."
Mo’een Hassouna 2002
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