Kinda Hassan

Statememnt:

The language of art started to be a tool for me to express what is still unknown, what is beyond my intellectual capacities: the spontaneous and unthought-of. A tool to discover, to reach other dimensions we rarely can communicate to ourselves or to others.

My presence as a human being, as an individual, as a life was for me crucial in each one of my artworks. It was for me the criteria to consider my work “artistic” or not. If others could feel, sense a human presence in the work, than the communication is established and the message delivered.

So an artwork is in my view made to be seen. And if it’s to be seen than it should be worth seeing. Therefore I can’t think of my artwork as a personal hobby or activity.

The main question that I’m concerned with lately is “what should I not produce”. I’m afraid of the meaningless, the artistic waste. Maybe because our consumption societies of today and the overproduction make us wonder what is of “real value” and what is not. Therefore, I’m trying to engage my artistic work on a human-social-political level. Still I don’t want to find myself transforming art into an intellectual activity intended for a limited social class, because I think it is not, and shouldn’t be. Neither do I believe I can still “project” my feelings or emotions on canvas or other medium and exhibit them, maybe because I’m aware of my responsibility as a human being towards other human beings and as a Lebanese citizen towards my society, and would feel selfish or foolish if I do so. I need to think of the public, and work on communicating more than emotions, “esthetics” or plasticity. When we speak in public, we speak to convince. I’m looking for a way to combine “cultural practices” with “artistic creation”. To produce artistic works that necessitate both feeling and understanding. An artwork should be accessible to as many as it can.

And then I go destroying everything I just said by thinking I will never escape the uselessness, whether it is of art, or of life… and the borderline between the two start to blur...