Artist: Jad El Khoury
Date: 2019
Museum: Nuart Festival (Stavanger, Norway)
Technique: Mixed Media
In 2019, Nuart partnered with Venice’s Arte Laguna Prize to offer an art residency during the festival. This was awarded to Lebanese interior architect and street artist, Jad El Khoury.The site specific installation which Jad created in Stavanger was the continuation of a powerful previous project, Burj el Hawa (The Tower of Wind). This first iteration in his series of structural interventions saw the artist breathe life into an abandoned building in downtown Beirut, using fabric and the wind itself to create movement in the otherwise desolate space. For his Stavanger based counterpart, he repurposed the very fabric which hung in Beirut, as seen here. El Khoury’s point of view has been fine tuned by his direct awareness of the long term effects of war and conflict. In a gentle yet pointed continuation, the artist explores concepts of memory and healing.
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