Fatma Shanan | |
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 Fatma Shanan selfportrait | |
| Born | 1986 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Figurative, Realism |
| Website | http://www.fatmashanan.com |
Fatma Shanan | |
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| Fatma Shanan selfportrait | |
| Born | 1986 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Figurative, Realism |
| Website | http://www.fatmashanan.com |
Fatma Shanan was born in 1986 and grew up in Julis, Israel. As a kid she attended private art lessons due to the lack of art courses in her elementary school's curriculum. [2] She studied visual arts at the Oranim Academic College from 2007 to 2010. Afterwards she studied in the studio of traditionalist Israeli artist Elie Shamir for a year. [2] She lives and works between Tel Aviv and Julis. [3]
Shanan is known for her figurative oil paintings of scenes of Druze villages and is inspired by 19th and 20th century realism. [4] Almost all of her paintings are derived from staged photographs, [5] which utilize family and friends as models. [6] Many of her pieces feature traditional Eastern carpets, which contrast with her Western landscapes. [3] The image of the oriental carpet is prominent in the Druze culture and common in most households. The carpet serves as an object of prayer, which must stay clean and not be stepped on. The maintenance of the carpet is often a job attended to by a woman. [6] Her work primarily deals with identity through the representation of figures in domestic and public spheres. [3] She especially focuses on her identity as women within her community and how that has impacted her life, aspiring to develop more fluidity between genders and other demographics. [4]
She has also produced several self-portraits, which similarly contain carpet patterns or other objects showing identity. [2] One piece, titled "Floating Self Portrait" depicts Shanan levitating over a carpet, which was developed from a video she took in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [2]
Fatma Shanan held solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world, including solo exhibitions in Tel Aviv Museum of Art, [7] Zemack Contemporary Art, [1] and Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery. [8] She has participated in many group exhibitions including ones at the Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem, Janco Dada Museum, Bloomfield Science Museum, The Mediterranean Biennale in Sakhnin, Fresh Paint art fair and Alfred Institute for Contemporary Art. [9] [10]
Fatma Shanan's works are part of collection of Israel Museum in Jerusalem. [11]
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