Mounira Al Solh

Mounira Al Solh (born 1978 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-Dutch visual artist.

Early life and education

In 1989, during the Lebanese Civil War, Mounira Al Solhs family left Beirut and emigrated to Damascus in Syria. Al Solh studied painting at the Lebanese University in Beirut (1998 until 2001) and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2003–2006), and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2007–2008).^[1] She lives in Beirut and Amsterdam.

Work

Al Solh creates artworks on paper, performances, embroidery and film works about the topics of trauma, loss, migration and memory, inspired by the ongoing conflict situation in the Middle East. Many of her works are about

Reception

Al Solh has

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