Wall Calls for Peace
Wall Calls for Peace
By Dana Hassan
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▸ Features: Handmade Unique Piece▸ Materials: Paper Wood
▸ Art technique: Mixed Media
▸ Dimensions (cm): 116.84 x 81.28 x 2.54
▸ Net Weight (kg): 4.0
Wall Calls for Peace is one of the first works that helps to retrace the collective memory of my city Beirut. The project was launched in times of COVID when I realized how tremendous this pandemic is likely to impact our lives and challenge our perceptions of what back to normal should be. The three-dimensional collage reflects Beirut’s cut and torn urban areas and mixed identities. Looking at urban walls as the most important elements that define social interactions and the relationships between a city and its people; I went exploring how those torn-down walls in the streets of Beirut can greatly influence the city’s collective memory and give my city a brand-new identity.
By overlaying random urban areas’ multifaceted traits and drawing on an eclectic mix of subject matters, languages, and cultures, my artwork becomes a hybrid language of remixed identities that have been revisited from their actual contexts to reinvent a new form of modern urbanity. Wall Calls for Peace has helped retrace a new city where urban spaces are freed from sector and neighborhood boundaries, linear maps, and historical borders. It also carries the uprising voice of Beirut’s inhabitants that calls for a citizen-led state relation, transcends sectarian divides, and embodies the unity that they aspire to, since the October Revolution.
Torn posters on vintage wood packing case.
Production year: 2020.
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.