Portraits of Palestinians in public spaces

Olive oil in this art work signifies tradition as well as a rupture with tradition when used as a painting medium. Its traces are very feeble and play with light, like memories that are hued by the context they are appearing in. This portrait represents my grandparents with most of their children in Palestine around 1957.

This portrait is the first of a series of murals with olive oil.

Annual Award of Land Salzburg 2007 at Salzburger Kunstverein

Mural with olive oil-Portrait of Housnia & family, 2007

Mural with olive oil - Portrait of Thouraya, Sourya and me, 2019

This time WALL TATOO is located in a setting at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, which celebrated its 30th anniversary with the exhibition WHAT, HOW AND FOR WHOM? in allusion to the Zagreb-based art collective that have opened this exhibition in 2019.

Resurfacing my great grandmother Thouraya was a deep rooting and transforming experience I could share with the audience. She passed over to me a kind of soft stubbornness.

Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna/A, 2019