Ahmed Nosseir

Egypt

email: ahnosseir@hotmail.com

Biography

Artist's Statement

Harmony?

In this work glimpsed figures are trying to be an agreement or maybe harvest what they can, but there are things that prevent this “agreement”--maybe problems from the past, or a difference in the level of knowledge, or a different culture. It is difficult to obtain agreement.

I am attempting to convey my vision of the relationship between East and West. This vision became an illustration: two characters whose features express the conflict between good and evil as I see it, as a relationship which has always existed. The struggle is crystallized in my mind and other questions appear. Is this really a war? What we see is true and clear for us all. It is a real war, in which everyone loses, there is neither victor nor defeated. Mankind has indulged in fiercer, bloodier wars and concluded that war is a last resort, its benefits are temporary and losses are unavoidable. When we look at our relationship with the West and with each other I always ask myself- are we evil? What is evil in this sense? What role do we play in creating the views that have proliferated recently in which we are allegedly evil? I do not think that we are entirely innocent of spreading these views. The West is also guilty which leads me to wonder, is the West as concerned with the region and in conspiring against us as some Eastern theories claim? My main question, though, remains how I can use the tools I have, to communicate my understanding of this conflict. These are preliminary thoughts but they express the ideas foremost in my mind.

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