EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
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    • Portrait 2005
    • Number & Lifetime 2004-2005
  • Systemic art/ Mapping
    • 2y+2m+5d=38m 2018
    • Autobiography-USA 2014-2016
    • Remapping DC 2015
    • Remapping Africa 2013
    • Remapping AlFahidi 2013
    • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
    • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010- 2013-2013
    • Word in to Art 2009
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​Life's cube 06 

We can immediately sense mystery and excitement in this work, a complete marketing scheme for the Rubik Cube. The toy is very popular because it is close to the hearts of adults and stimulating to the minds of young people. This Pop/System art work, ever the attention grabber, rebels against order- it is at once both chaotic and systematic. It defies rationality and order. Being the symbol of minimalism, the cube encompasses both abstract and authoritative qualities. The simplicity of the numbers intermingles with symbols from nature and social systems, for all we do is act. The critical mind has limits that condemn us to failure whenever we try to aspire to anything beyond a rather loose grip on reality. The viewer always seems bound for a period of time.
The control that puts will between the palms of one's hands, as if it were a cynical joke, mocks the reality of knowledge systems and their credibility. The unity of control represents a sort of self deprivation as the viewer only depends on the sense of touch and little knowledge to control these systems. And although the work is related to construction, it has a popular, intellectual, behavioral, social, legal and physical context that is somewhat veiled.
The system of the work is comprehensive, including all six surfaces of the cube. It is therefore an oppressive regime that dominates all levels of the presentation, even forcing a certain posture and restricted hand movement- when inserted in the see-through box containing the cubes. Here, the viewer becomes part of the work, even an actor performing a role, following certain methods that they follow in their everyday life, within repetitive schemes that recur in all their activities, which are in turn related to one another through groups of chaotic systems.
However, following all that excitement and deprivation, the moment of joyous and a state of rather harsh conditional liberation is reached. Here, the harshness lies in the awareness that knowledge leads to a longing for ignorance.
Is commitment, then, commitment to order? Or is it commitment to that which is beyond order?


©  2022 EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
  • About
    • BIO
    • CV
    • Contact
  • Performances
    • The Silent voices 2024
    • Blood news 2024
    • Autobiography 2022
    • 'I can't breathe' 2021
    • See Something Say Something 2018
    • Gold 2018
    • Islamophobia 2017
    • A safe person to approach 2017
    • Structures 2015
    • Unashamed 2015
    • Blue Freedom 2013
    • Women’s Circles 2011
    • Autobiography 2007
  • Installation Art
    • Nuclear Game 2022
    • Untitled 2022
    • Focal Illusion 2019
    • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
    • Re-Mapping the Wall 2013
    • Re-Mapping House 11, 2013
    • Re-Mapping the Office 2013
    • My Phone’s Diary 2013
    • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
    • Biography 2009
    • Imaginary shapes 2007
    • Light of the Shadow 2007
    • Life's cube 2006
    • My Brain 2006
    • Four Probabilities 2005
    • Vision & Illusion 2005
    • Autobiography 2003-2005
    • Ten Triangles 2004
    • Line 2004
  • Video
  • Painting
    • 2025
    • 2024
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020 Isolation Art
    • 2019
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2014
    • 2012
    • 2011
    • Paintings 1999- 2007 >
      • Collage >
        • Subscription 2017
  • Photography
    • Life in a bag 2019
    • Night Shadows 2013
    • Untitled 2010
    • Life in a Bag 2009
    • Untitled 2008
    • 35 Minutes 2006
    • Portrait 2005
    • Number & Lifetime 2004-2005
  • Systemic art/ Mapping
    • 2y+2m+5d=38m 2018
    • Autobiography-USA 2014-2016
    • Remapping DC 2015
    • Remapping Africa 2013
    • Remapping AlFahidi 2013
    • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
    • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010- 2013-2013
    • Word in to Art 2009
  • Commission Art
    • collaboration with Life Water 2021
    • Collaboration with Swatch 2021
  • Press
  • News