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Biography
Palestinian artist born in Breij refugee camp, lives
and works in Gaza.
Mohamed Abusal is a young artist whose time is
spent between painting and giving art lessons to
children. Abusal is prolific and in a few years
has produced several series. One set deals with
Palestinians’ love of their land and the different
realities of separation and exile. The series
presented in this exhibition are abstracted figures
and faces either in groups or alone exploring
identity through color and image. In his most recent
work, strong expressive images of cactus fill up his
canvas - the cactus plant being a familiar
Palestinian symbol. |
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In
Abusal’s work the cactus, which he paints in warm
greens, ochre, browns and reds, are sometimes
passionate and raging, and other times, stoic and
resilient. |
