And After Comes Faith
And After Comes Faith
By Katia Aoun Hage
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▸ Features: Handmade Unique Piece▸ Materials: Canvas
▸ Art technique: Oil Painting
▸ Net Weight (kg): 1.0
This artwork shows ruins overtaken by vegetation and the role they play in shedding light on the past through the present narrative.
Production year: 2020.
Artist Statement
My work is a combination of painting, poetry, and music. I have always been fascinated by ruins and walking through them; I could imagine the lives that inhabited them. With the current situation of the world, especially the genocide in Gaza, ruins have given me a new perspective on understanding the disappearance of a society, notably its men, women, and children, in addition to its building structures. As a response to Aftermaths, I witness the ruins as physical remnants of a culture. Their emptiness evokes the displacement of its people, which is portrayed by our current events, including horrifying acts of annihilating them under several pretexts. The music has a repeating phrase inviting the listener to remember how to ground into faith and the melodies are an expression of grief and contained rage.
About Katia Aoun Hage
Katia Aoun Hage is a multi-disciplinary artist. Born in Cameroun, raised in Lebanon, and currently living in the USA with her family. She has served as a music educator for 15 years, founded an indie press, Elyssar Press, and is currently the founder and music agent at Elissa Music Agency. An avid reader and thinker about life, spirituality, environmental and social issues, Katia has found ways to express them through her paintings, music, and poetry, as well as her involvement in the arts and education systems. Her book of poetry is “After the War, the Women Spoke.”
www.katiaaounhage.com