Artist:

Nidaa Badwan

Partners:

European Union (Open Gallery Program)

Description:

In the words of this Gaza artist: “…Within my room, turned into my own retreat, I learned to feel intimacy, a sense of love, the beauty of things around me. Everything there was used to construct, in an artistic manner, various scenes of my life so as to invite the viewer to share his own loneliness with me. All in the hope of living in a city echoing these photographs, and what I have realised and experience in the state of solitude.

I wait for the sun rays to pass through the windows, I handle shade and colour, I turn the stepladder into something that serves the picture, in another functional and vital philosophy. Through this realistic fantasy of my new world, I turn the sewing machine into my very own loom. With the title of my new occupation, 'seamstress,’ I try to build a reflection of what I imagine and desire: a simple world, respectful of the world that I aspire to live in, outside this room.”