Showing posts with label Dina Amer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dina Amer. Show all posts

Monday, 10 March 2025

#287: Why do I have to scrub off where I come from in order to fit in to your vision of an equal society?

Oil on canvas triptych - all of the paintings are the same orientation but the ones on either side are larger than the one in the centre.

Left-hand side: A word painting of the following: “He said, ‘You’re part of the problem. You are creating a barrier between yourself and our society by putting that label on yourself. And we should all be leaving our religions and our roots at the door and living as equals.’ That’s a beautiful idea. But why do I have to scrub off where I come from in order to fit in to your vision of an equal society?” Dina Amer.

Centre: A painting where the canvas is full of figures that are identical shapeless blobs with blank faces.

Right-hand side: A word painting of the following: YOUR Utopia: a room full of blank faces and identical forms. 



Rose, Steve (2023) ‘I buckled when I saw her remains’ – the biopic about ‘Europe’s first female suicide bomber’. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/25/europes-first-female-suicide-bomber-hasna-ait-boulahcen-paris-attacks-dina-amer (Accessed: 26th January 2023).