Exhibition
21 January – 4 March 2011
paintings by
Zohra Ben Hamida
Tunisian artist Zohra Ben Hamida is Arab and Berber by ancestry. In her paintings she references “the textures and colors that are memories of the domes of mosques that called attention to themselves five times a day, the blazing sun straddling the cool shades over the desert in Saudi Arabia, a country that shaped a good part of [her] young life.” She also paints “memories of the bright garments adorned with gold and silver fibulae [her] Berber grandmother always wore with such pride, the purity of [her] Arab grand-father, a man who could not see with his eyes, so instead saw farther and deeper with his heart, a man who, unbeknown to him, emitted a bright and subtle light each time he knelt in prayer.”
