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Hanadi Traifeh
- 32, Female
- Cardiff
- United Kingdom
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Hanadi Traifeh's Groups
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Evaluation
14 members
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Raqs Media Collective ...
12 members
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Documentation
14 members
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THE DOCUMENT: TRUTH/FI...
7 members
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From Camelot to Damascus
12 members
Hanadi Traifeh's Page
Profile Information
- Age
- 30
- I am...
- a visual artist, originally from syria, live and work in cardiff, UK
- I have a website
- http://www.hanaditraifeh.com
- Artistic Field or Interest
- visial art
- Profession
- artist
- I like...
- rain, love, nature, reading, painting, monet, manet, true friendship, the way how my famliy care about me and lots and lots more..
- Statement
- “We want our art to speak across the barriers of knowledge directly to people about their life and not about their knowledge of art.” That was one of the statements I came across few years ago and which was said by Gilbert & George. This statement and others that address the points of Art and Life, the boundaries between Art and the world, place me in a continuous state of questioning what is ‘Art’ and what is ‘Life’. Are they reflecting each other or can one of them only lead to the other? Are there really boundaries between ‘Art’ and the ‘world’? Can art be the mirror of the world? Can the world itself be the artwork?
Thinking of such wide questions has helped me in seeing and understanding my surrounding in a better way and be more aware of the places we as human beings see, visit or live in and look at them differently. Therefore, several themes can be found and experienced in the work such as sea, nature, people, urban life which can be only one step away from the rural. This can also express my never ending thoughts about life contradictions which may be seen and found everywhere.
My work is expressing the symbolic moments of everyday contemporary life and how these can be seen from a distance. It also connects the selected symbols to their philosophical, epistemological and mythological roots. My main medium of work is digital and film photography but both will be processed digitally to create imaginary scenes. The works are displayed as still images in large scales where the viewer is invited to interact with the scene and create his/her own stories through the images he/she sees and then become an essential figure in the work. Each viewer would occupy different imaginary positions relative to the relationship between the work and their own mental frame of reference.
Artists that influenced my practice (either theoretically or technically):
Jhon Goto, David LaChapelle, Andreas Gursky and Jeff Wall.
- Research interests
- We (Hanadi and Salina) will try to experiment the meaning of ‘collaboration’ through our relationship with ‘place’ and ‘time’ and with each other as well by building up a new world in which we can control the places we visit and the time we decide to visit those place at.
We will decide to do a specific thing every week at an exact time and photograph what we are doing. Two photographs only will be chosen to be put together in one work for each action we do. In the end of the project, we will get a set of images where the viewer can see what we did but he/she may not be able to recognize the place or the time if we did not mention that.
We believe that it is a very interesting experience to do the same thing at the same time in the full awareness that somebody else in the other part of the world is doing the same. This experiment will encourage us to explore the meaning of the “Art and social relevance” and see how art can help us to explore our feelings towards the work we will be doing and how each one of us can approach that work in the way she can also explore her own identity and see how to express what she does, sees, and feels. In this research trip identity will be explored as the following:
- Identity as a social feature (born with – influenced by social culture)/limited and inside the frame
- Identity as a personal feature (collective-creation of personal/self culture)/unlimeted and out side the frame
- Crossing social earned identity with personal collected identity (cross points – exoticism and xenophobia as earned or collected – behavior as a crossing point – self image including body image and sexual definition and behavior)
- Limitations of social identity versus those of personal ones
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Call For Participation: Arab Cinema Caravan Project
The Caravan of the Euro-Arab Cinema, a project funded by the EU within the framework of Euromed Audiovisual II Programme, has launched a call for participation in the 3rd Caravan Creativity Workshop.
This year's theme is "The Self & The City" and is open to short feature and animation films. The workshop will focus on lectures, screenings, case studies, tutorials, discussions and the practical phase which will include the execution of the films. It will host 20 participants from the Arab Me… Continue
This year's theme is "The Self & The City" and is open to short feature and animation films. The workshop will focus on lectures, screenings, case studies, tutorials, discussions and the practical phase which will include the execution of the films. It will host 20 participants from the Arab Me… Continue
Posted on September 6, 2008 at 10:38pm —
Task no.3, Salina & Hanadi
It was a walk!
Thursday, 31 July 2008, 2.30 pm Cardiff time = 4.30 pm Damascus time
On Wednesday, the day before our walk, I received a quick idea from Salina that she would be at Damascus down town at that time and she would start her walk from that starting point but she wasn’t sure where her destination will be. I emailed Salina back to inform her that I also still don’t know where I will walk but when I intend to have a walk, I prefer to go to the park. At the same time I had to return some… Continue
Thursday, 31 July 2008, 2.30 pm Cardiff time = 4.30 pm Damascus time
On Wednesday, the day before our walk, I received a quick idea from Salina that she would be at Damascus down town at that time and she would start her walk from that starting point but she wasn’t sure where her destination will be. I emailed Salina back to inform her that I also still don’t know where I will walk but when I intend to have a walk, I prefer to go to the park. At the same time I had to return some… Continue
Posted on August 3, 2008 at 4:30am — 2 Comments
Assignment No.3
The date: Saturday, 12th July, 2008
The time: 4 pm GMT time, 12 pm Ontario time
The place: Niagara-on-the-lake
The gallery name: Angie Strauss
The address: 125 Queen street, Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario Canada, L0S 1J0
The Angie Strauss Art Gallery is Niagara largest and most popular gallery. The gallery features the work of owner - artist Angie Strauss in a lovingly restored 1850’s colonial house. Angie Strauss is a “true impressionist painter” who was born in Cyprus, raised in England and has… Continue
The time: 4 pm GMT time, 12 pm Ontario time
The place: Niagara-on-the-lake
The gallery name: Angie Strauss
The address: 125 Queen street, Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario Canada, L0S 1J0
The Angie Strauss Art Gallery is Niagara largest and most popular gallery. The gallery features the work of owner - artist Angie Strauss in a lovingly restored 1850’s colonial house. Angie Strauss is a “true impressionist painter” who was born in Cyprus, raised in England and has… Continue
Posted on July 14, 2008 at 7:10pm —
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I am sorry if I reply just now, to your comments on my post....I think, as Jan suggested, that the idea of proposing maps and ways to explore the city to the rest of the group is very good...I would like to talk more about this possibility, if you like....
I'm sorry about the assignment of the walk, I was supposed to post the pics today but I'm planning to post everthing all together in the coming few days.. In case I stayed alive :D
xoxoxo