Khaled Hourani

A young Palestinian artist, Hourani experiments with colors and materials in a collage reflecting his "predicament and swinging moods facing the scene, the collage of TV images, Atlantic planes, the hunger in Somalia, Palestinian misery, the suffering of love in an Argentinean soap opera, and the distress of sex over the mobile phone." In his work, Hourani tries to evade the determinism of colors and set images, in an attempt to hide the secrets of his inner life, at the same time exposing them in an explosion of colors and images and old notebooks. His abstract work is a rebellion against the direct political or folkloric statements that have generally characterized the work of Palestinian artists, as a result of the political struggle of which they have been a part for many decades. He describes himself as "prone to doubt and discretion… for the certainty that gives an act like painting austerity and serenity is something I cannot comprehend."