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Title | Wall Calls for Peace |
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Artist | Dana Hassan |
Dimensions | 118 cm H x 82 cm W x 2 cm D |
Year of Production | 2020 |
Medium | Torn posters on vintage wood packing case |
$1,012.00
Wall Calls for Peace is one of the first works that helps to retrace the collective memory of my city Beirut. The project was launched in times of COVID, when I came to the realization how tremendous this pandemic is likely to impact our lives, as well as challenge our perceptions of what back to normal should be. The three-dimensional collage reflects on Beirut’s cut and torn urban areas and mixed identities. Looking at urban walls as the most important elements that define social interactions and the relationships between a city and its people; I went exploring how those torn down walls in the streets of Beirut can greatly influence the city’s collective memory and give my city a brand new identity. By overlaying random urban areas’ multifaceted traits and drawing on an eclectic mix of subject matters, languages, cultures, my artwork becomes a hybrid language of remixed identities that have been revisited from their actual contexts to reinvent a new form of modern urbanity. Wall Calls for Peace has helped retrace a new city where urban spaces are freed from sector and neighborhood boundaries, linear maps and historical borders. It also carries the uprising voice of Beirut’s inhabitants that call for a citizen-led state relation, transcends sectarian divides, and embodies the unity that they aspire to, since October Revolution.
Title | Wall Calls for Peace |
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Artist | Dana Hassan |
Dimensions | 118 cm H x 82 cm W x 2 cm D |
Year of Production | 2020 |
Medium | Torn posters on vintage wood packing case |