Paris - Le Caire

Mon opinion n'a guère changé !
Sincèrement, je vois de la forme, de la forme, de la forme, et Un Sujet, mais pas d'adéquation ( c'est anti-hegelien au possible !).
C'est finalement plus journalistique que créatif !
Après les posters géants, format choisi pour la série sur "Ashoura", cette fois, l'artiste opte pour un format beaucoup plus petit, le grain de l'image laisse deviné de la toile à peindre, et les photgraphies sont encadrées dans un style rococo décati.
L'année dernière (voir archives du Blog "Le Caire"-10 avril 2006), tout ce sang photographié sur l'événement de l'Ashoura, pourquoi, pour dire quoi ? Il n'y a pas de discours, c'est juste de l'image embéllie.
J'essaie d'imaginer ce que des gens pourrait penser lors d'une expo en Europe...à mon humble avis, cela pourrrait renforcer le terreur envers le Moyen-Orient.

Document from the Townhouse website : http://www.thetownhousegallery.com/main7.html :

"Palimpsest

In this series of works, brought together under the title Palimpsest (a parchment from which writing has been incompletely erased to make room for another text), artist Nermin Hammam plays with fixed notions of artifice and reality. Using graphics technology to evoke Caravaggio’s Tenebroso (literally meaning dark and gloomy), layering textures and washes of pigment to imbue photographs with a static, painterly quality, she documents rituals in which religious boundaries are transgressed as a matter of course, Christians and Muslims flocking to church in search of solace and healing.

The laying on of hands and the creation of a mark that will speak to its maker are older than either Islam or Christianity, however: echoes and harbingers of these rituals may be found in aboriginal explanations of how the universe came into existence -- the “dreaming” in which mythical beings mapped out creation by touch -- or in the pilgrimages the faithful undertake to Lourdes on their knees in hope of salvation. Similar ideas are expressed in the Gilf Kebir’s “cave of swimmers,” or in the Shiite tradition of pressing the forehead to a piece of dried earth from Karbala during prayer. In their anticipation of communion with a force beyond them, humans may step lightly over borders orthodoxy has marked out."