Multidisciplinary artist working in video, photography, installation, drawing or embroidery, Mounira Al Solh addresses the issues of movement at the Europe and the Mediterranean scale. Her work is enriched by collected narratives, mixing personal and collective histories, which represent many ways of evoking resilience in the face of contemporary conflict.
In the Pablo Picasso national Museum, the Lebanese artist presents a tent embroidered with the twenty-four Arabic names for the hours of day and night, such as Al Fahmah, the hour of the night translated as “coal”. In the intimate and protected space of the tent, the stories inscribed deal with women’s emancipation in the Arabic world (as a geographic area and a common cultural space). This installation is enriched by an embroidery specifically designed on this occasion, which diverts the character of the Warrior of Peace painted by Picasso from a feminist perspective, and relates it to the current protest movement in Lebanon.
A proposal by the Museums of the 20th century in the Alpes-Maritimes.
Curated by Jean-Baptiste Delorme and Anne Dopffer.
Media Partners : Mouvement et Le Quotidien des Arts.
