Afrasianet - Zahra Marei - Between a drawing that he drew from the heart of reality, and a written text that overlaps with this drawing, Salim Mouawad let his feather and his mind tend to tend to compare its painful results with regard to human rights. Salim Mouawad, who worked for many years in international organizations concerned with human rights, was struck by the diary of the genocide carried out by the Zionist entity on the people of Gaza.
His anger explodes at the exhibition "The Gaza Organization: Bodies and Unburied Concepts" at Dar al-Nimr, which runs until the 13th of this month.Salim Mouawad painted satirically, whether in a number of canvas paintings on acrylic, or those of similar sizes and successively, as if they were a semi-continuous recording of the trajectories of extermination.
In his paintings on canvas, Mouawad evoked the animal, perhaps the horse, which he borrowed two feet from to place on a human body, which in turn was disfigured. Mouawad's painting is either harsh and bright in its colors, or it has a faded and broken color tone. It is as if Salim Mouawad, in this exhibition, is relieving the false burdens that he has long carried for the so-called human rights.
He found in these rights degrees and conceptual connotations according to the status of human beings on this planet, and according to the color of their skin. In a place where self-defense and the right are terrorism.
And in a place Another carries the characterization of self-defense. From the "Land of Sad Oranges", Salim Mouawad embodied successive paintings in which the orange had a resisting and escalating action. In a painting that appears to be old-fashioned, Salim Mouawad declared a stance against the withdrawal of Palestinian arms.
The Kalashnikov appeared stamped with the signature "This thing is not for sale." Mouawad counted them as the prisoner counts his days of imprisonment on the cell wall. Between 8/10/2023 and the ceasefire, a total of 600+9 days. Days of blood, tears and loss.
A torrent of ideas and concepts narrated by Salim Mouawad with his successive paintings. A narrative accompanied by an embodiment of the image, as well as the first steps of the children of Gaza, in red. Even Hanzala breaks his back and his bones appear to be covered in red blood.
The martyr photographer Essam Abdullah said that his name and underneath him is a wrecked car and a torrent of blood. A book in both Arabic and English, in which he tells his story from childhood to his second decade of life, and his upbringing hating the Fedayeen. Transformations that took place at the level of awareness and concepts led to a different outcome, which is summarized as "I am with Palestine, I am with humanity."
He announced the "Art of Resistance" movement, which aims to convey a political message based on international law and universal human rights values.
The proceeds from the sale of artworks and books will be used to provide scholarships for Palestinian students residing in Lebanon.
