“Under The Shade” Trilogy
“Under The Shade” is a project that highlights our reality. The fact that we live today under the shade of what our heritage and grandfathers have built for us.
I have visited the last black smith workshop owned by my family “Al Haddad”. I cooperated with the black smith to make a chair. That chair was the spotlight of the project. I took the chair along with me to the village. I took pictures of members of the village society sitting on it. This idea symbolizes the crafts that have been developed by the grandfathers, which provides us with ease in the light of our daily life. The rhetorical idea of the project is us resting under that shade.
Form one: Under the shade
After the project had been presented to the audience, the chair acquired that symbolism. It have become a representative for the place and the history of the grandfathers as an ambassador of what the grandfathers represent. And from that representation, the other forms of the project have launched. It is the relationship of today’s generation with their heritage and the memory.
Exhibited in
Block 338, Adliya, Bahrain
Produced in
2016
Part of
The Nest 2016 – art fair
