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In the beginning was the Word Painting

Joumana Medlej

United Kingdom

Painting, Gallnut Ink on Paper

Size: 56 W x 40 H x 1 D cm

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This piece is actually a "historical fiction" as I imagined a fully-developed script for Biblical Arabic calligraphy from which the existing examples of 9th-century “Christian Kufi” used in Jerusalem might have derived. This type of early Kufi was never actually codified but offers some characterist...

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2022

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Painting, Gallnut Ink on Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

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56 W x 40 H x 1 D cm

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Yes

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Brown

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I'm a British-Lebanese artist who moved from Beirut to East London about a decade ago. I'm best known for reviving archaic styles of Arabic calligraphy (the Kufi scripts) and the medieval art materials that accompany them. My work reflects my experience of the world as being alive with mystery. It invites the viewer to step into this forgotten space by holding them in wonder and stillness: in this vulnerable moment, when one is silenced by beauty and by not-knowing, remembrance can stir. To this end, the work takes on different shapes, from images of contemplation made up of unreadable words to multisensory interactive objects that tell an unspoken story.

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