Ode to a Mother
Ode to a Mother
By Dana Hassan
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▸ Features: Handmade Unique Piece▸ Materials: Canvas Concrete Markers Acrylic
▸ Art technique: Mixed Media
▸ Dimensions (cm): 50.8 x 76.2 x 58.42
▸ Net Weight (kg): 7.0
Ode to a Mother is among a series of non-conventional format paintings I’ve made to revisit traditional mounted canvas’ paintings on wood and bring three-dimensional fluid forms into my art. On a white drapery canvas, I painted the continuous symbiotic process of love and the birth of a crumbling city with a tortured past that keeps inspiring me, Beirut. I redrew my visual memory of places I’ve been and streets I’ve walked, projecting forward and backward at once, to reimagine my city beyond the atrocities of wars and political unrest.
The metaphor Beirut-mother plays a central role in my work taking the form of an interlaced abstraction of what is both real and symbolic in the feminine body and urban patterns. The lines are a walk down memory lane, traced like umbilical cords extended between the city and its land. They are the streets, the strolls, the curves and scars. Beirut’s dilapidated evolution is marked by an asymmetric interplay of dissimilar street plans and block arrangements; all, in varying states and patterns, stand side by side to form a progressive poetic rhythm. My urban fabric is borderless, typically freed from its frame, and solid and resistant. It is a mere reflection of a city always bursting to rebel and realign boundaries.
Production year: 2019.
About Dana Hassan
Dana Hassan was born in Beirut amid civil war and political instability. She lives and works between Cyprus and Lebanon. Her passion for art began early in her childhood and grew throughout the years. Even after completing her BA in Business Administration at the American University of Beirut, she pursued her art studies at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, where she earned a BA in Illustration and Comics.
Dana works at the intersection of conceptual art and storytelling. She believes that art can be a powerful way to communicate and engage with communities on global matters, making a strong impact, changing perceptions, or calling for action. In October 2019, Dana was shortlisted among 15 international artists to help raise awareness of disasters and environmental changes in our communities and societies. Her artwork "If Not Now, When?" was featured in The Art of Resilience exhibition at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC.
Since then, Dana has become part of a large network of international artists, exhibiting her work in collective shows across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States of America.