Mounira Al SolhContact details: www.mouniraalsolh.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it One or Two Invasions by Higher-Income Groups (In Progress). 2009. Three slide projections.
A double burger and two metamorphoses: a proposal for a Dutch cat, a Dutch dog, a Dutch donkey, a Dutch goat and finally, a Dutch camel (In Progress). 2009. Video, sound, 12 min., looped.  Using video, writing, photography, painting and collages, Al Solh creates captivating stories rich in humour and poetry. Her personal experience of being in between two countries and cultures (Amsterdam and Beirut, West and Middle-East) often provides the artist with material for reflections on social, political and artistic issues. For this final presentation, Al Solh will present two works-in-progress. In Dog Bark, A double burger and two metamorphoses the artist takes the role of various animals with which she has conversations upon frivolous subjects, such as food and love, as well as such relevant issues as the writings of Lyotard, Rousseau, Multatuli, and Spinoza. Via those dialogues conducted in an absurd manner, the artist creates a fictional experiment about her limits as a human being. In One or Two Invasions by Higher-Income Groups, the artist focuses her attention on the phenomenon of gentrification and on the presence of artists as catalysts and facilitators of those processes of transformation. By carefully mingling images and texts from various sources, she presents three slide-projections in which she traces a short history of the gentrification processes, creates a fictive scenario of imaginary gentrifications and provides a highly personal recollection of her year spent as a temporary resident of the Korsjespoortsteeg. Special thanks to the Fonds BKVB. Biography: Mounira Al Solh (b. 1978, Beirut, Lebanon) lives and works in Amsterdam and Beirut. She studied painting at the Lebanese University in Beirut in Lebanon and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Between 2006 and 2008, she was resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
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