Dima Hajjar
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Visual arts |
| Location | Beirut, Lebanon |
| Interests | Dima Hajjar is a Lebanese artist living in Beirut, Lebanon. Her works include: Scènes de vie / Scan Life (1999-2004), Sky Under Surveillance (2011) and Sky Picnic (2014). A work characterized by grand structures of power and visibility, or the lack thereof, Dima Hajjar's practice leads towards an aesthetics of bare life and the body politic; primarily interested in the spectral or ghostly nature of authority, its known fictions, the work makes use of pure space and everyday life as an open canvas. The strategy deployed is not meant to represent objects or even conditions but to translate entire analogous realities into new planes of representation whereby the distinction between invisibility - of presence or power - and current political reality becomes annulled. With a particular interest in shadows, the black world, and the ephemeral as a symbolic order, Hajjar explores the manifold processes through which bare materials might emit resonances of their own. This process is not gratuitous: For the artist, it is the syntax in which the everyday reveals itself to the onlooker, as a realm of complex closed systems and constraints on freedom, both political and personal. Hajjar has had three solo exhibitions in Beirut (1999, 2004, and 2011) and has participated in group exhibitions at Dak'Art Biennial Off (Dakar 2002) and 23rd Alexandria Biennial (Alexandria 2005) among others. Her work was awarded at The 4th Jeux de la Francophonie at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2001) and she received the Sursock Museum Jury Prize (Beirut, 2003). Hajjar’s artwork is represented in several public collections including Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Tunis) and Sursock Museum Collection (Beirut) . |