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Monther Jawabre
My paintings spring from the relationship between two contradicting places
and the eect they had on my consciousness. One place was aected by the
Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land and the resulting chaos of that occupation
on the architectural, natural, political, cultural and social realities.
While the other place is located in a dierent place in this globe, it is characterized
by order and clarity. At this stage, I had to merge between these two
worlds into one art work that can tolerate the contradiction between them.
The order and the well-ordered society were elements of boredom for me,
since it is beyond the logic of my reality in which I live in Palestine.
The image in the paintings was formed in my consciousness, and the symbols
were assembled in relation to the system and order in Paris. The rhythmic
lines played an important role in developing my experience and carried
various implications in the symbolic aspect, the composition and the technique.
These lines also played a roll how I merged between the two worlds
with one common element, and that is the one person who can live this
state of mind and tolerate these contradictions and circumstances.
Biography
Monther Jawabre was born in Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron,
in 1976. He graduated from AnNajah University in Nablus
with a B.A in painting. His art works are very much inuenced by the
place of his birth, the camp, which has more than twelve thousand
persons living in a space of just a half square kilometer.
He is currently living and working in Ramallah. He is one of the leading
young Palestinian artists. He is a co-founder of al-Mahata gallery
in Ramallah. He had many solo and group exhibitions. In 2010,
he was in a six months residency in Paris.
www.montherjawabreh.com
e-mail: montherjawabreh@gmail.com