Artist

Abir FEKIH

Artist bio

My name is Abir, I am 28 years old, I am an artist painter based in France. I have explored painting by myself since my teenagehood. I come from the scientific research world, but I chose painting as a refuge to clear my mind and express all the thoughts that were spinning in my head. Recently, i have faced a paradoxical situation that has touched me a lot and that had a strong impact on the choice of the concept of my recent artworks, which is "the paradoxes" As an artist and a researcher, my role is to look for answers to problems. I was inspired by my research work in the management of paradoxes to create my artworks and send a message about the resolution of paradoxes in our social context. According to the literature on paradoxes, the dialogue between these contradictory elements can let emerge a new reality, which is more beneficial. Inspired by this paradoxical logic based on the acceptance of tensions, i hope through colors and material to bring people to question themselves and give meaning to the inescapable paradoxes in our lives. To express the paradoxes, I use two opposite styles: Figurative art and Abstract art. i have worked with different techniques and I like mixing oil colors and watercolors for the pleasure of surpassing the limits. I use different tools, brush painting, knife painting… to accentuate the paradoxical side of the artwork between smooth and clear and blurry and abstract. In this short video, you will find a short presentation of me, my artistic approach, and some pictures of my recent artworks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-CEjgTfg38

Title

Acceptance

Medium/Genre

Painting

Artist Statement

Recently, i have faced a paradoxical situation that has touched me a lot and that had a strong impact on the choice of the concept of my artworks which is "the paradoxes"
This artwork presents a self-portrait and tells my story related to the loss of the person that i loved so much.
My hand tries to tear out the jewel, which is very dear to my heart that was given to me by the person who is gone forever….
My artwork is called "Acceptance" it presents the spiritual battle and the paradox (Loss/gain) which shows that sometimes we have to lose to gain even more of what we have lost, and that is only if we accept the loss and we decide to win our internal battle!
By this mixture of blue color (color of depth) and gold (color of richness), I wanted to invite people to discover their internal deep richness.

How it fits into contest

If I ask you to close your eyes, to look deep inside you...and think of something that made you happy one day, do you know what you will see?
You will see that what made us happy one day brought us pain and what brought us pain also made us happy….
we do everything to avoid exposing ourselves to loss and we forget that if we love we will one day have pain…..
Accepting the loss is the key to see the gift behind every pain we feel to discover the best deep inside us.
And that's the spiritual battle and the paradox (Loss/gain) shown in my artwork called "Acceptance" which shows that sometimes we have to lose to gain even more of what we have lost. We have to learn to accept this loss in order to be more resistant and stronger.
This artwork presents a self-portrait and tells my story related to the loss of the person that i loved so much.
My hand tries to tear out the jewel, which is very dear to my heart that was given to me by the person who is gone forever… Accepting this will help me to see the internal deep richness that I presented with the color blue (color of depth) and gold (color of richness).
By this mixture of these colors, I wanted to show all that we can win if we accept the loss and we decide to win our internal battle.

Credits

Dedicated to the person that i loved so much

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Contact: abirfekih2014@yahoo.fr

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