Graphics Biennale Graphics Palestinian Noor Abed

Artist Noor Abed is the winner of the grand prize 36. Graphic Biennale Ljubljana. The jury granted her her to address and embody choreographic issues and feminine placements in the context of current social and political development, the biennial said. The award was presented at Friday’s opening of the Biennial.

According to the justification, the artist with the help of a stick as a method for self -defense that extends the body, skillfully emphasizes the thesis that performing itself can be a survival method.

« We are delighted to welcome her future presentation of the new (co) ordered work, which will continue to spread her original practice and continue to develop the experience of communion emotion as tools for building and maintaining a community, » wrote the international jury of this year’s biennial, which consisted of it Tia Chiček as president and Kevser Güler, Albertine Kopp, Francesco Manacord and Apolonia Šušteršič.

In his practice, Noor Abed is involved in the role of aesthetics in staging the ceremony and staging as a survival method. It studies how the ideology embodies in the movement in the context of social choreography. It particularly focuses on the relationship between movement and resistance, the role of the collective rhythmic movement, and the potential influence that common feelings can have to create and preserve the community.

Her work at the 36th Biennial of Biennial of Ljubljana was inspired by traditional Palestinian dances. Inspired by choreographic records, the drawings that mark the movement, the author created a series of drawings that record the movement of the stick.

At Friday’s opening of the Biennale, they also announced the winner of the Research Residence Award and Special Reminders. The first one received work Gabi dao with the title Sweet blood in standing waters. This includes an experimental science fiction film, presenting a family of angels, humanoid cyborgs who inhabit the planet that replaced the Earth.

The artist created a fictitious narrative to spread the understanding of abnormative ways to create kinship ties between people and multi-human. This is based on a science fiction and a mosquito life cycle, writes in justification.

With a special mention, the jury highlighted the Catalan singer, composer and experimental artist Mario Arnal. Her contribution to the Biennale is a series of songs specifically made for the opening rite of the exhibition and for the first journey of visitors in different venues. According to the organizers, the artist, using traditional Iberian music with avant -garde pop and electronic elements, has developed a technique that allows her to think about the song the way to think about herself and understand her identity and place in the world.

The International Biennial of Graphic Biennale Ljubljana, organized by the International Graphic Arts Center in this year, 36. ORAKLJ: about imagination and freedom. Artistic leader and curator Chus Martinez is the concept of the event, which will last until 12 October, attaches to the Orakelj in terms of the ancient name of the place where we meet the future.