Spoznajte rezidenta: Elie Mouhanna

Vljudno vabljeni na predstavitveni dogodek in pogovor z aktualnim rezidentom Eliejem Mouhanno, ki bo v četrtek, 19. 8. 2021, ob 19. uri, na dvorišču Vetrinjskega dvora (Vetrinjska ulica 30).

Elie Mouhanna je bil rojen leta 1990, odrasel je v obmorskem mestu Sarba (Jounieh) v Libanonu, trenutno pa živi in deluje v Feytrounu v Libanonu. Leta 2012 je magistriral iz grafičnega oblikovanja na Univerzi USEK, deluje kot multidisciplinarni umetnik, izdelovalec tekstila in pedagog. Na oddelku za modno oblikovanje Libanonske akademije vizualnih umetnosti (ALBA) poučuje pletenje in zgodovino tekstilnih tehnik.

Za Mouhanno je umetnost katarzična ter osebna ali kolektivna potreba, ki izhaja iz občutka nujnosti, določenega s specifičnim kontekstom. Četudi njegova umetniška praksa izvira iz osebnega, osebnih izkušenj in osebnih arhivov, vedno - četudi implicitno - korespondira s kolektivnim. Tekom let so se v njegovi praksi izoblikovala ponavljajoča se področja, ki usmerjajo njegov raziskovalni interes: telo kot materija in figura ter relacija telesa do drugih (živih in neživih) bitij, prostora in časa; raznolike manifestacije jezika kot sredstva interaktivnosti; tehnika, razumljena kot sklop znanja in metod, ki telesom omogočajo delovanje.

Dogodek bo potekal v skladu z veljavnimi ukrepi za zamejitev širjenja virusa Covid-19.

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Meet The Resident: Elie Mouhanna

You are kindly invited to join us next Thursaday, 19. 08. 2021 at 7 pm for the Meet The Resident event at the courtyard of the Vetrinj mansion (Vetrinjska ulica 30) where our current resident Elie Mouhanna is going to introduce himself and present his work.

Elie Mouhanna was born and grew up in the coastal town of Sarba (Jounieh), Lebanon in 1990. He is currently working and residing in Feytroun, Lebanon. In 2013, he graduated with a master’s degree in graphic design from USEK (The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik), but spent most of the following years participating in art exhibitions in Lebanon and abroad. He’s a multidisciplinary artist, as well as a self-taught textile practitioner and pedagogue. He is a professor of knitwear and the history of textile techniques at the fashion school of ALBA (The Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts).

For Mouhanna, art is cathartic and a personal/collective need, and the act of making art is necessarily driven by a sense of urgency that is often particular to a specific context. His artistic practice emerges from the personal and feeds on his personal experiences and archives, but for him, the personal must always be capable of functioning as an analogy of the collective even if implicitly. Throughout the years, he has come to recognize the recurrent themes that govern his creative endeavors: the body, in the literal and figurative sense, and its relationship with other (animate and inanimate), time, and space; language in its various manifestations, as the backbone of interactivity; technique, as know-how and methods that allows for the generation of bodies of work.