Love, Art, Money
Film
Film
An Interviewing platform which highlights the creatives from SWANA + beyond pushing culture forward. The conversation works to close the gap between the audience and the traditional art scene.
Mayar Mahfoud
(IM)MATERIAL
Installation
Wooden Structure, with 5 Meter rolls of paper on either side
A sculpture made up of two unwinding scrolls showcasing the internet as a modern day cabinet of curiosities. Investigating the manifestation of the Arab diasporic identity through the digital ephemera one engages with as material objects.
Live, Love, Kitsch
Film
Film
Exploring the ways the visual language of Arab Kitsch can be used as a radical form of reclamation for the Arab diaspora. Particularly through the analysis of ‘bad’ or kitsch design, as a form of resistance against the colonial, hegemonic, western way of approaching and understanding taste.