von Hiba Alansari
Math Book is a synthetic work that tries to present an idea about people's connection with places, explosions and death. The work is inspired by a math book found by al-Ansari inside a destroyed house in the north of Syria, for the girl Nora Bezkadi, who was killed by warplanes bombing on her home. Al-Ansari used concrete blocks and sponges as an attempt to reduce the explosion, and to construct irrational mathematical equations that are formed from other materials used in everyday life, such as kitchen utensils.
Born in Syria in 1983,
Hiba Al-Ansari lives and works between Munich and Berlin. She studied at the Adham Ismail and Walid Ezzat Institutes of Fine Arts in Damascus (2005-2008), Sculpture and Painting Department, and later attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Damascus where she specialised in Oil paintings (2007-2012). In 2017, she received a Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Hiba exhibited widely in the Middle East and in Europe where she participated in various group exhibitions. She had her first solo exhibition “Despots of presence” during Expo in Munich (2015) and participated in the group exhibition “Syria off frame” at Biennale di Venezia (2015).
Production: Ettijahat-Independent Culture, Goethe-Institut Libanon, AFAC
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