13 April, 13 April, 13 April, 2020

13 April, 13 April, 13 April, 2020

A central aspect of Mounira Al Solh’s practice is a continuing recording of stories, those of displaced people, migrants, or wanderers, those of women who have fought oppressive systems, those of persons who went through ordeals, and lived to transmit this oral history to their children. However, for once, with the series 13 April, 13 April, 13 April the artist looks at herself instead, confronting her own vulnerabilities, intimate desires, hopes, and pain, using nudity as a radical act of self-examination. Drawn with ink and blood, the series is titled after the Lebanese civil war which broke out on April 13, 1975, the repeating date rising like a lament.