‘How Are You Going? Are You Okay?’ AllArtNow (Damascus, Syria) 7-30 October 2014 Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios Inc ON SHOW NOW is work by Muhammad Ali Seems Offbeat, Our Daily Life (7-14 October 2014) I used to hang around, walking in the streets of Damascus, looking to the city, listening to the people, speak with the drivers, observing the small details of the daily life of the people who try to adjust themselves with unusual life, and finally, try to get inspired to create images about small details in their/our daily life. ‘How Are You Going? Are You Okay?’ They were good friends full of trust about their art and life. They were working hard to progress their artworks and pass the challenges when the war broke out in their country to erupt their heart, leaving them so confused about the future and what they have to do. They split up, left the art space, took the decision about their unclear future and keep asking themselves if they took the right direction. Muhammad decided to stay in Damascus, when Mahmoud left Damascus to stay in his small hometown, and Nisrine flew out of the country. For 2 years, they havent seen each other, they have no discussion about arts and life as before. Each one of them is busy in his/her new life, trying to adjust, to find reason to continue his/her life and to think that something will come up and life will be fixed again. In my project, I selected these 3 friends as an allegory to illustrate part of the current life of Syrians where family, friends and lovers separated from each other and found themselves in a different kind of life, lost about the future, confounded to find their own way in their new life and finally know few things or sometimes nothing about each other. In this project, I work with each one of them separately, with the aim of answering the main question, which is addressing the concept of the project. My main question was: How Are You Going? Are You Okay? None of them know what the others were going to do or discussed the artworks as before, but the result came to show the common points of their life even though they are in different place with different conditions of life, but all of them are sharing the patience of waiting. The project has been divided to show in 3 different times where each artist will show his/her work separately without being able to meet, even in their artworks. Abir Boukhari, Curator and Director AllArtNow Participating Artists: Muhammad Ali, Nisrine Boukhari and Mahmoud Dayoub About AllArtNow: AllArtNow is considered to be the first independent collective space in Syria for visual arts, multimedia and contemporary arts. AllArtNow was founded in 2005, as the only independent collective organisation for visual arts in Syria. The founders aim to create greater opportunities for emerging Syrian artists and to develop contemporary art practices in Syria. Since July 2012, AllArtNow closed its door in Syria to open it to Syrian refugee families and started to work in different places in the world as a nomadic space. To know more, please visit: allartnow Peek-a-Boo is Gotham Studios street level window gallery - on view to the public 24 hours 7 days all year at 57 James Street, Northbridge (at the James Street entrance to the Perth Cultural Centre) gothamstudios.au gothamstudios.au/exhibitions/how-are-you-going-are-you-okay-545/
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