Video: Leila Khaled from 3.5 thousand tubes of lipstick. Installation The icon by Amer Shomali
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A man plus cosmetics equals a big question mark. Why does he need a mountain of tubes of ink, boxes of powder, lipstick, multi-colored nail polish? He's probably gay. Or trance. Or is he a Palestinian artist Amer Shomali, who gained fame for his art installation The icon from 3, 5 thousand multi-colored lipsticks. The "icon" for the Palestinian is the activist of the national liberation movement, the famous woman revolutionary Leila Khaled, and therefore the basis for the art project was her most popular photo on the Internet in an embrace with an AK assault rifle. Having decomposed this black-and-white photograph into multi-colored parts-circles and having decided on the colors, the artist got down to business.
More than 3, 5 thousand lipsticks in 14 shades, from transparent gloss and white-pearl to dark brown and rich coral color, were laid out in 14 boxes, from where the author and his assistants extracted the desired color and determined it in its place, in accordance with the drawn diagram … The canvas turned out to be not only huge in size, meter by one and a half meters, but also very heavy. Therefore, the artist and his assistants collected it directly in the museum building, where the exhibition was held.
And yet, why lipstick, you ask? The fact is that the author used lipstick as a symbol of femininity and attractiveness, and the portrait was dedicated to the role of Palestinian women in the life of the country and shaping its future. This art project saw the light of day at the Framed-Unframed exhibition at the Birzeit University Museum.
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