Resilience
Resilience
By Rayya Nizar Salim
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▸ Features: Handmade Unique Piece Upcycled▸ Materials: Rope Metal Mix Wood
▸ Art technique: Embossed Metal Cross Stitching
▸ Dimensions (cm): 50.0 x 50.0 x 10.0
Resilience (upcycled wooden sieve) is inspired by the steadfastness and resilience of the Palestinian people, especially Palestinian mothers in the face of a brutal genocide. Whether the piece depicts two women behind barbed wires or else a single woman wearing a mask has been left purposefully ambiguous. It brings to mind questions of what is a mask and what is real.
This purposeful ambiguity symbolizes the sense of confusion, helplessness, and ambivalence in the face of one of the most violent assaults on people in our generation. The whole nation's families and children are trapped in a situation not of their making or choice. The emotions on the face(s) of the women/woman are also ambiguous, although one has their eyes open to the reality of the world, while the other remains shut.
About Rayya Nizar Salim
Rayya Nizar Salim is a self-taught Beirut-based Iraqi/German multimedia artist. From an early age, Rayya was surrounded by her paternal family's artists and thinkers, the Salim family. As she moved with her family around the world, she watched her father painting and sculpting being surrounded by artists, she learned artistic techniques and practices that inspired her and later were incorporated into her Art. A Mother of three she worked in Kuwait Jordan and the UAE at the UNHCR and Swedish Embassy. After retirement, Rayya has dedicated her time to the Arts. In 2019 with her Lebanese husband, she moved to Lebanon, where she works from her Studio in Mar Mikhael.
Rayya works with different media, metal Sheets, acrylic painting, clay, cloth, and wire, as well as incorporating ancient craftsmanship, weaving, macrame, block printing, and metal embossing in her Art. The artist’s interpretation of the complex histories of her home and adopted countries, Iraq and Lebanon, are woven together using images, childhood memories, ancient mythology, and folklore.
She has participated in the following collective art exhibitions: 2017 - Cultural Art Exhibition at The Iraqi Embassy in Abu Dhabi - Eclectic Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi 2018 - Cultural Art Exhibition at the Iraqi Consulate – Dubai 2022 - Into the Light – Art for Change, Hamra Beirut 2023 - Brain Food Art Exhibition, La Maison Des Artistes Gallery, Beirut.