EBTISAM ABDULAZIZ
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Untitled 08

The Imaginative awareness buried deep in human consciousness makes the viewer, when they look at that photograph that resembles a painting, respond subconsciously to the symbols, lines shapes, people and things that are a result of the interaction between image and receiver. These symbols may be familiar to them, but their detail level and complexity is much higher.
 
This work takes the photograph outside its traditional documentary role and moves it towards abstraction. As we look at the contents of the photograph, our minds produce an imaginary image, free of the three dimensions, and representative of the clash between light and shadow. I aimed at stressing the mental consciousness of the reality of the photograph by reproducing nature using things we don’t usually notice or find in memory. There is an incentive to search and unlock the infinite mystery of the complex photograph through realizing the harmony of subject in its core. It is no longer a beautiful photograph. Its function is similar to that of art inspiring contemplation. It is no longer a documentation of reality but rather a search for something beyond it. The multiple images in this work are very similar to daily activities stored in memory, some of which are inaccessible to viewer. The lines and the ambiguous connections between images in the shape of a series of documented events (places, times, people, activities) point at daily events and push the viewer to arrive at an organized image in a haphazard manner. These images are supposed to be of realistic events and characters; instead they were abstract combinations of elements and vague symbols that seemed like mysterious documentary photographs.
We see that image reflects an artistic documentary side that matches its social reflection. The photograph itself might be documentary to certain extent but it also conceals plenty of symbolism and combines portraits with biographies, emphasizing its historical role and moving forward from representation towards a more complex photograph.
 
©  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