Mo’een Hassouna
10/2002
“Contrast”
The artist:
Mo’een Hassouna was born in Gaza,
Jabalia. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department, Oil Painting section,
of Al Najah University in Nablus. He had the opportunity to acquire
professional experience in the field of the Arts, for he has worked in
several art-related posts, the most recent being his current job as Visual
Arts Coordinator at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre. Therefore, we are
glad, at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, to present our colleague and
artist in his first exhibition, hoping that it would be a start for his
integration in the Palestinian Visual Arts movement.
The exhibit:
Between reality and the trivialities of
imagination, the idea entices, approaches, calls upon and roams around
you. It reminds you of a childhood that is with you and installed in you;
clinging to you like a shadow. It stirs up that voice that was always
heard like the sound of moaning in the depth of the well, waiting for a
passerby to succor and to quench you and to awaken in you the soul of the
fighter. For now you are in a battle where there is no return or retreat,
where all your strides are set forward. So stand steadfast in every step
and do not allow the wind to push, defeat or shove you. Wake up. Do not
sleep, for you have slept enough. Remove that veil away from your face and
go on, for soon you leave behind the child and you grow old. And between
those two realities, the waiting remains like a hovering dark cloud over
the heads of all, so wait or do not wait at all.
Mo’een Hassouna 2002
