Absolutely loved this exhibition (special preview just for me!). The opening is on Friday night...
Mounira Al Solh was born in 1978 in Lebanon, moved to the Netherlands to study arts further and now lives and works between Beirut and Amsterdam.
Her newest exhibition has now come from Maastricht, The Netherlands (2025), to Bristol, UK, and will be shown at Arnolfini - my favourite art venue, from Saturday.
Personal insight:
Al Solh’s show comprises a series of artworks and installations, including her critically acclaimed Venice Biennale pavilion installation, A Dance With Her Myth, with its a life-size boat skeleton, film, paintings, drawings and masks.
Her newest works is also on display, especially 'Elissa’s Room' and 'Europa’s Bedroom', exploring the fortunes of Phoenician women leaders Elissa and Europa, from Phoenicia to Europe and North Africa, through the artist's contemporary lens, building upon her ever-growing interest in folklore and mythology.
A visual artist whose practice spans installation, painting, sculpture, video, drawing, text, embroidery, and performative gestures, she is vicerally inspired by her own experience growing up in war-torn Lebanon, in a Syrian-Lebanese family, but also by the region's very long (millenia long) history, mythology and folklore.
Her artwork particularly engages with equality - between people, genders, stories... and bears witness to the impact of conflict and displacement.
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Political but mosly poetic, joyous and colourful, her practice is so multiple; it has to be seen.
Storytelling meet change, language and resistance.
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We met in the bookshop a day before we were supposed to speak in an interview...
Fantastic conversation. More soon in a coming article.
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