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Aal Sekkin- Sfera by the sea exhibition|Curated by Bokja For Aishti
2016
Materials :  Metal sphere, Marble, Brass, Gold leaf
Dimensions : 50cm


Aal sekkin is a lighting fixture inspired by all the violence and recent terrorist attacks happening in the world .
The name derives from "Aal sekkin ya batikh" a familiar Lebanese slang  for street vendors  selling cut watermelon.
The result leads to a dual interpretation:
On one side the sculpture represents the earth being stabbed and dripping "light" blood  revealing the gold leaf plated center, on the other side it resembles a watermelon being butchered in two halves.
The pure gold knife symbolizes the noble death acts being done by "sacred" dogmas. Which God? For God! What God?
Aal sekkin is a  metaphor for how violence has become such a simple and easy gesture similar to the act of slicing a watermelon that leads to the unexpected , to doubt, to the surprising dilemma of good or bad, sweet or sour...

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