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Hero-Masks
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Syria, for me, is a father's and a man's country. When I moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1978 I not only went through a cultural change, but I also lost my father.
When I went to school in Syria I was constantly confronted with heroic male figures in uniform, or, in the case of workers or farmers, in unbuttoned shirts with rolled up sleeves. The renderings ranged from large murals in the style of the Socialist Realism to small reproductions in my schoolbooks. The figures with their big moustaches and exaggerated muscles left no doubt that real man were meant here. They either held guns or agricultural implements such as spades or axes in their large hands. They stood upright, gazing out of their expressionless faces into the distance.
A very similar interpretation of heroic gender role models can be observed in American action movies when a perfect image of the modern male hero is created for a mass audience with the help of much money and high technology. His reduced facial expressions as if being above human make him a mask.
For the project with Loushy I would like to choose the title Hero-Masks. My aim will be the rendering of the every-day-hero, as I experience and perceive him. So I shall not be surprised if my heroes turn out to be small, ugly, childish, female, old, toy-like, weak, big, fat, male, animalistic or full of expression or mask-like. In these works I shall fathom which role the existence of heroes play in my life.
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