Mariam Salah
مريم صلاح

Artist
Statement

I am working on completing a project that I have previously carried out with
studies and research on stories about women in Arab society. It is a carving project that technically treats the shape of women after they have gone through
harsh conditions and takes responsibility for long periods of time,
where I have been monitoring some women who are in special women’s groups for psychological treatment and observing their actions and the shape of their bodies in order to find out what the story of each woman .
I am currently carrying out and developing a multi-technic conceptual project
on the smuggling of the sperm from Israeli occupation prisons, which I have
introduced through the Hologram technique, which is a means of approaching the smuggling process that makes the operation happen without physical
contact, as well as conceptual sketches of the methods and tools used in the
smuggling operation, which may be absurd for some, such as candy wrappers,
chips, lighters, etc… I have also carried out several projects on child abuse, which are repeated in every year of aggression in the Gaza Strip, entitled “Red Ash,” an artwork with video technology that has contributed to addressing the subject by using several filters that deal with the psychological transition of children during the aggression in a simple period. I have also done a live performance that speaks of political parties in my country and its impact on citizens between normality and stagnation, and forced changes by means of modern dance under the title “ Parties and colors
I’ve cut a formula under the title “We’re not numbers” that’s been dealing with the subject of elections that have not been held since 2007 because of divisions
in the Gaza Strip.
I carried out an expressive drawing project, treating the use of colors and layers of them at different heights, thickness and colors to express the “90s” project, in which a large group of individual youth figures, whose ages are between 1990 and 1999, in which they appear to have been randomly integrated as an expression of the disappearance of the future and the identity of this period, which did not have a share in career appointments, marriage or other development in both aspects of life.