"I don’t want to be responsible for anything that I say"
Bio:
Kuwaiti-Lebanese artist, Born and raised in Kuwait. I came to Beirut in 1995 to study at the Lebanese American University where I got my B.A in Fine Arts. In 2002 I started working in Muhtaraf Al Zawiya, an artists’ studio space and a graphic design house for literary publications.
Between 1999 and 2006, I’ ve participated in several group shows and participated in international artists workshops in Lebanon and the U.K.
The works vary between painting, installation, and video.
Statement:
I had to ask someone who knows me very well to say something about my work because I feel that I’m still in no position to explain or pinpoint what it is that I was trying to do except for the fact that I constantly find myself coming across or fishing for photographs that remind me of something very personal or visually exciting. Sometimes it’s not even my own memory but I take it and own it, sometimes I invent it.
“I wonder who those girls are and how much simile there is between them and the artist. The little girls are fragments of her memory, representations of what could have been a thought or a situation, a teasing temptation. They could be little peter pans, fallen angels, or fickle fairies! They are mere shadows.
There is hesitation and stinginess in the work, as if she is afraid of finalizing a statement, like the fear of finalizing a memory. For memories are like shadows, they should keep changing or else they would fade and die.
How long can these peak-a-boo creatures maintain their posture before they get tired, bored, restless, and leave the set?” -Najah Taher
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