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SUMMARY:CHOUCAIR with Riet Wijnen
DTSTAMP:20260611T025834Z
DTSTART:20260625T160000Z
DESCRIPTION:Choucair’s interests included genetic science\, the infinite\, 
	the Arabic poetry\nform Qasida and Sufi philosophy. According to her\, the
	 Islamic rejection of the\npictorial image led to the essential search for
	 what one wanted to express\, and\nwas for her a fundamental way to unders
	tand Arabic intellectual thinking which\nshe translated a.o. into abstract
	 sculptures and paintings.\n\nWijnen visited the estate in Choucair’s last
	 apartment in the Qatari\nneighbourhood in Beirut. There she was confronte
	d by a large amount of works\,\nphotos and documents in French and Arabic\
	, languages she does not speak\, write\nnor read. This visit led to her de
	velopment of non-linguistic research methods\,\nan inquiry into how one mi
	ght “speak nearby”* and position themselves in the\nwork. Wijnen will shar
	e works and tools currently in development: a publication\,\nsculptural di
	nnerware and a series of fermentation pots. These works will also\nfeed in
	to a fictional conversation with Choucair\, which is part of a long term\n
	cycle\, since 2015\, titled Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction. *Trinh T
	.\nMinh–ha
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/choucair-with-riet-wijnen
GEO:52.3735679;4.8972388
LOCATION:San Serriffe - Sint Annenstraat 30\, 1012 HE Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,oude kerk,poetry,sculpture
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Choucair’s interests included genetic scien
	ce, the infinite, the Arabic poetry form Qasida and Sufi philosophy. Accor
	ding to her, the Islamic rejection of the pictorial image led to the essen
	tial search for what one wanted to express, and was for her a fundamental 
	way to understand Arabic intellectual thinking which she translated a.o. i
	nto abstract sculptures and paintings.</p> <p>Wijnen visited the estate in
	 Choucair’s last apartment in the Qatari neighbourhood in Beirut. There sh
	e was confronted by a large amount of works, photos and documents in Frenc
	h and Arabic, languages she does not speak, write nor read. This visit led
	 to her development of non-linguistic research methods, an inquiry into ho
	w one might “speak nearby”* and position themselves in the work. Wijnen wi
	ll share works and tools currently in development: a publication, sculptur
	al dinnerware and a series of fermentation pots. These works will also fee
	d into a fictional conversation with Choucair, which is part of a long ter
	m cycle, since 2015, titled Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction. *Trinh T
	. Minh–ha</p>
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