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Hazar Bakbachi-Henriot?Syrian
Neighborhood
2013
Signed
Unframed
Mixed media on
canvas
38 x 46 cm
Guide Price £500
“
Hazar Bakbachi-Henriot graduated from the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Damascus, Syria, and
the University of Paris. Her unique work, which
incorporates collage and painting, has been
exhibited in France and Europe.
Originally from Aleppo in northern Syria, a city
known for its textile manufacturing, Hazar is
now based in France. Her work remains
influenced by her roots and the desperate
humanitarian situation in her native country.
Last year Hazar organised a two-week
art workshop with women in refugee camps in
Antakya, near the Turkish-Syrian border,
in conjunction with the organisation ‘Emergency
Solidarity Syria’. Her aim was to get the women
to tell their stories by making collective art that
used embroidery and tapestry as its medium.
The first few days were difficult. It was silent … like a pebble. But as
soon as we started cutting the fabric and glue, the words came back.
[It was an] exchange of sharing and expression for seventeen women,
aged from fifteen to fifty years old. It was a way for them to participate
in the revolution and for the world to know that they exist and they
are not to be seen as helpless victims.
hazar bakbachi-henriot
quote from article in La Nouvelle Republique
”
From #withoutwords: Emerging Syrian artists exhibition (Mosaic Syria and P21 Gallery)
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