‚A man off his word‘

How many people these days can do what they promised to do? The people did change, no more we can find a handful of people whom we can rely on.  If this is on the personal level, what we can say about the community level? How can we solve conflicts? How can we protect people’s identity? How can we protect people’s dignity? Is there a way to protect those people? Is the international community doing its job? Are the decisions taken at the international forums walking the talks?

The work ‚A man off his word‘ is a dream to those who live in countries with everlasting conflicts. The words used in the art work were selected from the United Nations documents. Are these words really solving conflicts? Only people who live or witness the conflict may be able to answer. This joint work resulted from the interaction of someone who lives in a conflict country and another artist who experienced it through her friends and her travels to different countries.

Nadira Alaraj, 1959, multi-talented lecturer at the Faculty of Business in Bethlehem University. She makes art and jewelry as a hobby.  She contributes to group exhibits for its provision of opportunities within her timeframe to express her thoughts visually.

Cym, 1973, currently lives and works in the Netherlands. She has an old farm in Austria which she is transforming into an art center. In her work she researches the relation between the real world and the virtual space. Another important element in her work is recycling and reusing materials. She studied interaction design and unstable media and works as a lecturer on the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia.