“Walladah” - silkscreen print
Born in 1956 in Saudi Arabia and raised in the US. She received her education from Cairo University and Minneapolis College of Arts & Design. Al Mansour’s work mostly addresses the identity of Arabic women and voices her desire for change in order to reach equality and justice. She also seeks issues such as religions, sexualities and tolerance.
She has an array of works, variating from silk-screen prints on fabric usally using henna ink, to paintings, 3D work and more. Depiction of Arab individuals comes in a consistent pattern in her work, and a heavy usage of Arabic calligraphy incorperated in most of her work.
Two paintings from the series “Identity” – acrylics
September 19, 2008 at 10:07 am
[...] Fann 3arabi features artist Hend Al Mansour. [...]
September 19, 2008 at 10:50 am
My mother once had an exhibition with Hind Al-Mansour in Riyadh. I remember her well.
September 19, 2008 at 3:35 pm
amazing work. Especially the first one. Is that some Moroccan satanic style?
September 19, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Roba,
wow – really? I never knew your mom did art and stuff! Would love to see some one day ;)
Tambi,
Not really, there’s no pentagram in the artwork! hehe
and even if there’s, Pentagram should be associated with the goddess venus!
October 4, 2008 at 10:59 pm
‘Walladah’ work is disgusting. I am surpised that the Arabs have lost their haya and modesty.
October 5, 2008 at 12:14 am
Abdullah,
You are entitled to your own opinion, but I’m afraid I can’t grasp what lies under “disgusting”. Would you care to elaborate more?
Oh and I don’t believe they lost it, I don’t know what you understand of “modesty” or “haya” but this is art and should remain a free form of expression…
October 5, 2008 at 12:37 am
Abdullah are you suggesting that you are disgusted at the imagery of the human form as an artistic expression or that your mind is so perverse that it would interpret it as a pornographic image? Modesty, or 7aya, is highly relative, and the artist does not seem to be suggesting we should work towards a lack of such values. It reads to me as an interpretation of life and birth, basic human values and endorsement of life.
October 14, 2008 at 8:47 pm
It’s about time expressing women sexuality. We look at our day and time as modern but really past civilisations were more open and tolerent towards these things.