“Hands” exudes contemporary art [Archives:2006/958/Culture]
June 26 2006
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The exhibition, inaugurated by the French Ambassador Alain Mauro on June 24 at the French Cultural Center Henry de Monfreid, showed a handful of shots full of hands each one expressing a human experience.
Justifying the focus on hands on the artist's behalf, Saberi wrote: “Living in Yemen it seemed difficult for her to use faces to express emotions or to create scenarios. So they became a subterfuge. With a lot of ingenuity she therefore expresses her sensitivity in situations that a veil cannot reveal: revolt, sensuality, love or solitude.”
Boushra Almutawakel said that she found hands more expressive than any other part of the body and can show different states of mind.
In the four-day exhibition entitled “Hands”, you find hands together, hands dancing and hands conversating.
Born in Sana'a, Yemen, in 1969, Boushra Almutawakel was schooled in the USA and Yemen and then attained a degree in International Business at the American University in Washington, DC. During her time as a student she became interested in photography, and worked as a photo-journalist on the university newspaper and year-book, and as a photo lab assistant at the School of Communications. On her return to Yemen in 1994 she worked mainly as an educational adviser but continued developing her photographic work, participating in many group exhibitions. She is a member of many art groups and participated in several exhibitions locally and internationally such as Women Feed the World (1997), Yemen-Netherlands: 20 Years of Cooperation (1998) and Contemporary Art from Yemen held in Holland and Germany (1998-1999).
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