EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
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    • 2004 >
      • Number & Lifetime 04-05
      • Ten Triangles 04
      • Line 04
    • 2005 >
      • Portrait 05
      • Four Probabilities 05
      • Vision & Illusion 05
      • Autobiography 03-05
    • 2006 >
      • Life's cube 06
      • 35 Minutes 06
      • My Brain 06
    • 2007 >
      • Imaginary shapes 07
      • Light of the Shadow 07
      • Autobiography 07
    • 2008 >
      • Untitled 08
    • 2009 >
      • Life in a Bag 09
      • Biography 09
      • Word in to Art 09
    • 2010 >
      • Untitled 2010
      • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
    • 2011 >
      • Women’s Circles 2011
      • Self Portrait 2011
    • 2012 >
      • Autobiography 2012, Diary
      • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
      • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
    • 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
    • 2014
    • 2015 >
      • Structures 2015
      • Unashamed 2015
      • Remapping DC 2015
    • 2016 >
      • Autobiography 2015-2016, Diary
      • Untitled 2016 (1)
      • Autobiography-USA 2014-16
      • Untitled 2016 (2)
      • Untitled 2016 (3)
    • 2017 >
      • Islamophobia 2017
      • A safe person to approach 2017
      • Subscription 2017
      • Re-Building 2017
    • 2018 >
      • See Something Say Something 2018
      • Gold 2018
      • 2y+2m+5d=38m
    • 2019 >
      • Untitled 2019
      • Focal Illusion 2019
      • Life in a bag 2019
    • 2020
    • 2021
    • Paintings 1999- 2018
    • Collage
    • Video
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​Number & Lifetime 04-05

 I worked on a series of documentary photographs of people I didn't know and others who were my personal friends. I allowed myself through this work to present an unpretentious depiction of these people's temporal and internal expression in an attempt to underscore the degree of realism and integrity in archiving and identifying numbers with the visual elements of the picture.
 The viewer is also driven to search for that which is outside the picture. What is presented is merely a number and a body part, a hand. The viewer searches for the person whom that hand belongs to. Who is it? What does he or she look like?
The hand symbolizes many things.. The feel of a hand also reveals things: a soft hand indicates a rich and easy life, while a coarse hand belongs to one who toils endlessly and perhaps enjoys the arduous things in life. The lines and marks on fingers and palms also have a story to tell. This work is a demonstration of the effects of time on human nature. The first part of the work is composed of two large photographs hung up on the wall. The second part is an installation bearing the shape of a suspended shelf upon which lies an alphabetized archive of 27 files containing almost 2000 photographs and information on the people whose arms were photographed and who were interviewed by the artist. The personal information contained includes the name, age, nationality, and profession, and the files have been arranged alphabetically from A to Z. The third part of the work, which imparted a perpetual aura to the work, is the photo studio.
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  • About
    • STATEMENT
    • BIO
    • CV
    • My studio, Washington DC 2020
  • Work
    • 2004 >
      • Number & Lifetime 04-05
      • Ten Triangles 04
      • Line 04
    • 2005 >
      • Portrait 05
      • Four Probabilities 05
      • Vision & Illusion 05
      • Autobiography 03-05
    • 2006 >
      • Life's cube 06
      • 35 Minutes 06
      • My Brain 06
    • 2007 >
      • Imaginary shapes 07
      • Light of the Shadow 07
      • Autobiography 07
    • 2008 >
      • Untitled 08
    • 2009 >
      • Life in a Bag 09
      • Biography 09
      • Word in to Art 09
    • 2010 >
      • Untitled 2010
      • Re-Mapping The Arab World 2010-2013
    • 2011 >
      • Women’s Circles 2011
      • Self Portrait 2011
    • 2012 >
      • Autobiography 2012, Diary
      • Autobiography 2012- Plate Numbers
      • Autobiography 2012-Found Objects
    • 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
    • 2014
    • 2015 >
      • Structures 2015
      • Unashamed 2015
      • Remapping DC 2015
    • 2016 >
      • Autobiography 2015-2016, Diary
      • Untitled 2016 (1)
      • Autobiography-USA 2014-16
      • Untitled 2016 (2)
      • Untitled 2016 (3)
    • 2017 >
      • Islamophobia 2017
      • A safe person to approach 2017
      • Subscription 2017
      • Re-Building 2017
    • 2018 >
      • See Something Say Something 2018
      • Gold 2018
      • 2y+2m+5d=38m
    • 2019 >
      • Untitled 2019
      • Focal Illusion 2019
      • Life in a bag 2019
    • 2020
    • 2021
    • Paintings 1999- 2018
    • Collage
    • Video
  • Press
  • Contact