Mounira Al Solh
The Sea Is a Stereo: Paris Without a Sea, Let's Not Swim Then!, Elvis's Moments, Collage. | 2007-2017
2 videos, 5 photographs, 1 photo-collage. Variable dimensions. Paris Without a Sea (Ed 3/5), Let's not swim Then (Ed 2/5), Elvis's Moments (Ed 1/5), Collage (Unique)
" 'The Sea is A Stereo' is an ongoing work about men who swim everyday at the sea in Beirut no matter what happens, rain, wind, war... and who as we are now reading this might be swimming or preparing themselves to do so. Although this works explores nine different possibilities of how I could make "something" about those men, it is important to note that each possibility by itself can also be considered independently. Some of the possibilities are in progress, and in the future, more possibilities can be added, and maybe, some possibilities can be cancelled." (Mounira Al Solh)
Reference MS-MMI-2007-A(1-4)
Biography of the artist
Born in Beirut. 1978
Works and Lives in The Netherlands and in Lebanon
Mounira Al Solh studied painting at the Lebanese University (Beirut) from 1998 to 2001, and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) from 2003 to 2006. She was also Research Resident at the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) in 2007 and 2008.
She is a visual artist with a practice embracing inter alia video and video installations, painting and drawing, embroidery, and performative gestures. Irony and self-reflectivity are central strategies for her work, which explores feminist issues, tracks patterns of microhistory, is socially engaged, and can be political and escapist all at once.
In 2008, Al Solh started NOA Magazine (Not Only Arabic), a performative gesture co-edited with collaborators such as Fadi El Tofeili and Mona Abu Rayyan (NOA I & II), and Jacques Aswad (NOA III). Many artists and non-artists contributed to the different editions of the magazine, which are neither distributed nor exhibited, and can only be consulted by appointment, or during accousmatic readings.
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