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Suha
Shoman: JORDAN
Born in Jerusalem in 1944, works and lives in Jordan. Studied
Law in Beirut and Paris.
Joined the Fahrelnissa Zeid Royal Institute of Fine Arts in
1976.
1988 – 1993 Initiated and directed the art program at the
Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation.
1993 – Present Founder and President of Darat al Funun - The
Khalid Shoman Foundation.
1991 – 1999 Member of the National Gallery Board.
1996 – 2001 Member of the Board of Abdel Hameed Shoman Foundation.
Participated in regional and international art exhibitions
such as 7th Sharjah Biennial (2005), "Nafas" at Ifa Gallery
Berlin and Stuttgart (2006), 2nd Singapore Biennial (2008)
and "Masarat Palestine 2008" at Les Halles in Bruxelles. In
2009, participated in the 25th Alexandria Biennial for Mediterranean
Countries as a guest artist.
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Publications
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Suha
Shoman
2009 | Arabic and English texts by Adila Laïdi-Hanieh,
Sama Alshaibi, Ica Wahbeh, Pierre Cabanne, Noel Favreliere,
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Shaker Hassan Al Said, and May
Muzaffar
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Of
time and light
2004 | Arabic, English and French texts by Fahrelnissa
Zeid, Ica Wahbeh, Pierre Cabanne, Helen Khal, Wijdan
Ali, Kamal Boullata, Noel Favreliere, Samia Halaby,
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Stephanie, Shaker Hassan Al Said,
Abdoh Wazen, May Muzaffar, Asaad Oraibi among others.
Of time and sand
1997 | texts by Noel Favreliere and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra,
Galaxies
d'Orient
1984 | texts by Fahrelnissa Zeid and Andre Parinaud
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Of
time and Sand
By
Pierre Cabanne 1999
 Suha Shoman frees
from the mineral night forms that she alone can see, giving
life to their mysterious barrenness. Her eyes and hands guide
her spirit in this world of stones, tombs, funeral chapels,
caves, temples, now in ruin and deserted, that in Greek is named
the Nabataean, the ancient Sela, the Rock; she is its chosen
painter whose works have been destined to explore, ever since,
in 1988, the legend of Petra, theme of her first exhibitions,
inspired her, this impressive heterogeneous mixture of red sandstone
set against the blue marble sky. She does not depict Petra,
she carves its forms and forces out of the immemorial time where
they had been inscribed, witnesses of a history and, above all,
of a symbolism nourished by myths and beliefs, majestic wrecks
of a life that vanished centuries ago.
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Suha Shoman's
work is a successive memory landscape evolving from one cycle
to the other, from the naturalism of her first paintings on
canvas or paper to the expressive verticality where vibrant,
abstract matter is treated in depth, reconciling spirituality
and instinct under the sign of lyricism (Petra III).
Suha Shoman overcomes the impasse of simple transcription, she
immerses herself in the stratified crumbled rocks, wrinkled,
slashed by open wounds, sculpted by water and wind; during her
existence, that took her from one part of the world to the other,
she carried Petra's profound sense beyond its image. These rocks
witnessed the birth, growth and fall of civilizations that have
created the modern world. That is why Suha Shoman knows she
is connected to them and why she perpetuates them in her paintings.
Her creative act makes full use of space; her affective intensity
is an expression of her desire to know. |
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Petra
III | sand and mixed media on paper
| 105 x 75 cm | 1995
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art
book (mixed media on paper) | 20 x 33cm | 1995
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In order to better penetrate the space, she uses sand, piling
it, mixing it, draining it and giving it the colour of its origins;
her mixed techniques restore the geology of Petra's chaos, the
land burnt by the sun and the stone which is at once matte and
glowing. At times, in Suha Shoman's installations there is confrontation
between the stillness of the rock fragments she picked on site
and the movement of her creative act. It is through their extension
and the resonance they stir in her that she understands and
represents the landscape that set free the painter in her. |
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By Pierre Cabanne 1999 French Art Historian and Critic
Among his publications on Contemporary art: " The Century
of Picasso", "Duchamps and Cie", "Fautrier", "Cesar", "Arman",
"Messagier", "Garouste". Translated from French by: Ica Webeh
Editor Jordan Times
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Photographs of Petra
> Of Time and Light (video installation)
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I am everywhere (video installation)
> Stop
for God's Sake (video installation)
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