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Born 1974, Damascus
SY
lives and works in Canada - Syria
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Buthayna Ali's work
focuses on her' milieu and its inconsistencies'.
She uses abstraction to bring her audience closer to the work and in
order to create opportunities for audience interactions.
Thematically, she focuses on 'contradictions by getting closer to the
society and its states, as well as its concerns and inconsistencies.'
Using images, signs and objects, she critiques the socio-political
dimensions of imposed cultural conventions.
New vision Arab contemporary art in the 21st century
2010
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Buthayna Ali draws images, signs and objects from their proveniences and
territories to explore them in other directions than those imposed by
cultural conventions.
Her process of abstraction aims at the inner strength of a visual rather
than pure form or geometry. She subjects images, signs and objects which
are part of common and daily life to their semantic implications.
Through small modifications and shifts she induces individuality and at
the same time multiplies them in series. Via positions and pattern she
engenders references, via space and light relations.
3rd Glow Festival Forum of Light and Architecture
2008
After studying Fine Arts at the University of Damascus,
Syria, Buthayna moved to Paris for her graduate studies to obtain a
Diploma in painting from the
Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts of
Paris (ENSB-A) along with a Masters degree (DEA) in
History of Islamic Art from Paris IV Sorbonne, Paris.
Buthayna Ali has been teaching painting at the faculty of
Fine Arts at the University of Damascus, Syria for nine years.
She has recently exhibited her work in: The
Other Shadow of the City - Jerusalem (PS),
Taswir - Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin-Gropius-Bau -
Berlin (DE), Bastakia Art Fair – Dubai, (UAE) 2009, 11th Cairo Biennial
(EG), Glow Festival - Eindhoven (NL), Traversées ArtParis (FR) 2008,
Darat AlFunun - Amman (JO), 10th Istanbul Biennale (TR) ,
Sexy Souks in Point Ephémère - Paris (FR) 2007, Alrywak Gallery -
Damascus (SY) 2006, Brunei Gallery - London (UK) 2004, Atassi Gallery -
Damascus (SY) 2003, National Museum - Damascus (SY) 2002
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