I lived in Damascus in the years of war. Because of that everything inside I changed my beliefs, my dreams, and of course my art. And Ie started to look for a true meaning for everything, for true art.
The idea behind my concept is about the mutual influence of what I consider my two most important objects (mother and child) and also their relation to the world and how they interact within it. I think this binary is unlimited. However, as a Syrian woman that flees the war and carries with her all the memories would always think ‘We all live in danger’
When I came and lived in Europe for more than nine years, I think that I realized that these limitations are just transforming into another shape but are not disappearing.
I acknowledge that difficulties will be there no matter what you are or where you are and, in my artworks, I’m very interested in projecting this state of multiple lives. Showing the effect or the influence shared between a mother and her child with different interpretation and under different circumstances.
I always worked with the figure of a woman and her children to represent the present and the future.
My paintings depict us when we are the coal/fuel for the next human/beings, I’m picturing the fossils underneath the ground, and I’m imagining the prints over a rock.
Our present and future would perish under layers of dust and I don’t have enough courage to point out this issue in an indirect way. I think we really reach the limit and I’m now being brutally saying to everyone PLEASE STOP”
Hanan Saif
