Censorship of my work Back to the Middle Age In July 2017, my first solo exhibition Undercover in my hometown Nazareth was supposed to take place. Before sending my works, both the curator and the director of the gallery reviewed and agreed on the art works. The vast majority of my work express criticism of…
Gustav Courbet created his famous painting L’Origine du monde in 1866, which can be considered as a feminist artwork. Using this image on verses mentioning women, from the holy books (Bible, New Testament, and Koran) gives it a unique power.
In this version, focusing on gender abuse, I use red sand, on verses connected with the theme of women and the (un) equality that exists in the three religious books, the Bible (in Hebrew), the New Testament (in Greek ) and the Koran (in Arabic); creating my own symbolic center of the three religions.
One of Kandinsky’s ideas was that there are certain fundamental associations between (primary) colors and shapes (square, circle, and triangle). He ran a test on people and found yellow triangle, red square, and blue circle.
Needles are placed inside high heel red shoes insipid by the work of the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet as a protest against women that were killed due to gender abuse.
This performance is focused on the abuse against the gypsy women in Andalusia.A “gypsy” man carries a blind “gypsy” woman while a macho-chauvinist flamenco song is in the background. She is wearing a typical pocadots shirt.
In the name of “God” and male domination, abuse against women is a normal phenomenon; women tend to accept their destiny because it is God’s will and they do not even dare to question it.
CONVERSATION PIECE (Gotenborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. July – August, 2017)Code: Pedro G. Romero= PGR, Bassam El Baroni = BEB, Jose Iglesias Gª-Arenal = JIGA, Doris Hakim = DH, Yassine Chouati = YC Archivo F.X. in collaboration with Bassam El Baroni & Pedro G. Romero with the participation of Doris Hakim, Yassine Chouati and…
As Berger comments in his book Ways of Seeing about hidden ideologies in visual images (from the point of view of western aesthetics), men tend to look at women as an object which are not allowed to think for themselves; they are constantly under the judgment of men.
As Berger comments in his book Ways of Seeing about hidden ideologies in visual images (from the point of view of western aesthetics), men tend to look at women as an object which are not allowed to think for themselves; they are constantly under the judgment of men.
