EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
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    • 2020 Isolation Art
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      • Focal Illusion 2019
      • Life in a bag 2019
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      • Autobiography-USA 2014-16
      • Untitled 2016 (2)
      • Untitled 2016 (3)
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      • Unashamed 2015
      • Remapping DC 2015
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      • Blue Freedom 2013
      • My Phone’s Diary 2013
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      • Autobiography 2012, Diary
      • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
      • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
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      • Women’s Circles 2011
      • Self Portrait 2011
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      • Untitled 2010
      • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
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      • Life in a Bag 09
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      • Word in to Art 09
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      • Untitled 08
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      • Imaginary shapes 07
      • Light of the Shadow 07
      • Autobiography 07
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      • Life's cube 06
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35 Minutes 07

Picture
The way this work was created was in no way predetermined, and it was influenced by the surrounding conditions. Our daily interactions with the outside world force us, and what we are working on, to follow certain paths that cannot be changed. Although I was addressing the general state of the human and environmental nature- between the vicious and compassionate, and how existence plays on it, I never set a specific course for this work, for art has become a way of life. My 35 minutes of observation aimed at searching and discovering photographs. It wasn't intended as a technical presentation of photography, but rather as a documentation and affirmation of the authenticity of the photograph. The passing of time intervals forces a sequencing of the event rather than a sequence of events, and puts the characters in the photograph in the foreground. These documentation photographs are an interpretation of time and space through my eyes, transferring a small portion of an environment for about 35 minutes. The connection between the photographed area, the time, and the sequence of interactions with the events of that location captivated me for 35 minutes, while I captured it for an eternity. Did I, therefore, live through the scene, or did the scene come to life through me?
What is interesting is that wide cognitive gap between being a viewer looking at a scene and being the character in that scene looking back! From my work "35 minutes" I say that our life in the present takes place at a moment in the past.
I started taking pictures at four in the afternoon, and it took 35 minutes. I presented the photographs as if they were scenes of actors in a theatrical play with each one moving in a preset manner towards economic, cultural, social, political and environmental directions. On that theater, the illusion of homogeneity and harmony between individuals and their surroundings is exposed, and they appear to clash with the environmental scene, and professional nature. What the viewer sees is nothing but fragments from the memory of time and space, a copy within a frame arranged deliberately not impulsively. This mode of display and presentation places the sequence of scenes in different perspectives and contexts, giving rise to numerous inquiries concerning the purpose behind these photographed scenes.
Some may ask why this work wasn't done in video. The ambiguity posed by the photograph is intended to drive the viewer to contemplate and appreciate the often ignored or overlooked elements of our environment, and their relationship with the photograph. Thus, awareness is created of the struggle between human beings and nature in which the humans emerge victorious. The scene is not simply the photograph- it is the story.
©  2022 EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
  • About
    • BIO
    • CV
  • Work
    • 2022 >
      • Autobiography 2022
      • 2022 Artist in Residency program at Montgomery College
    • 2021 >
      • 'I can't breathe' 2021
      • collaboration with Life Water 2021
      • Collaboration with Swatch 2021
    • 2020 Isolation Art
    • 2019 >
      • Untitled 2019
      • Focal Illusion 2019
      • Life in a bag 2019
    • 2018 >
      • See Something Say Something 2018
      • Gold 2018
      • 2y+2m+5d=38m
    • 2017 >
      • Islamophobia 2017
      • A safe person to approach 2017
      • Subscription 2017
      • Re-Building 2017
    • 2016 >
      • Autobiography 2015-2016, Diary
      • Untitled 2016 (1)
      • Autobiography-USA 2014-16
      • Untitled 2016 (2)
      • Untitled 2016 (3)
    • 2015 >
      • Structures 2015
      • Unashamed 2015
      • Remapping DC 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013 >
      • Re-Mapping the Wall 2013
      • Re-Mapping House 11, 2013
      • Re-Mapping the Office 2013
      • Night Shadows 2013
      • Remapping AlFahidi 2013
      • Remapping Africa 2013
      • Blue Freedom 2013
      • My Phone’s Diary 2013
    • 2012 >
      • Autobiography 2012, Diary
      • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
      • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
    • 2011 >
      • Women’s Circles 2011
      • Self Portrait 2011
    • 2010 >
      • Untitled 2010
      • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
    • 2009 >
      • Life in a Bag 09
      • Biography 09
      • Word in to Art 09
    • 2008 >
      • Untitled 08
    • 2007 >
      • Imaginary shapes 07
      • Light of the Shadow 07
      • Autobiography 07
    • 2006 >
      • Life's cube 06
      • 35 Minutes 06
      • My Brain 06
    • 2005 >
      • Portrait 05
      • Four Probabilities 05
      • Vision & Illusion 05
      • Autobiography 03-05
    • 2004 >
      • Number & Lifetime 04-05
      • Ten Triangles 04
      • Line 04
    • Paintings 1999- 2018
    • Collage
  • Video
  • Press
  • News
  • Contact