Rafram Chaddad
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| Bab Ma7rouk Photo: Eberhard Weible |
Haus der Stiftungen (House of Foundations) / Galerie Seippel, Zeughausstr. 26, 50667 Cologne
Bab Ma7rouk
mixed media, 4’ 50
To this day, large wooden doors made of fogged-in wood are ubiquitous in the streets of Tunisia. They are usually double-winged, painted in blue, yellow or white and studded with a multitude of nails in the form of geometric ornaments and abstract pictorial symbols from Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other religions. They are considered a blessing. In 2014, Rafram Chaddad took one of these doors as a model for a relief, copied the pattern and replaced the nails with blue matches.
Rafram Chaddad
born 1976 in Djerba [tn]
lives and works in Tunis [tn]
| 2000-2003 | Musara School of Photography and New Media, Jerusalem [is] |
exhibitions (selected)
| 2016 | Gesellschaft fpr zeitgenössische Kunst, Osnabrück [de] |
| 2015 | Kunstraum LLC, New York [us] Herzliya Museum, Herzliya [is] |