Yemeni contemporary artist conveys gender issues through art [Archives:2008/1210/Culture]
November 24 2008
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![Inspired by personal suffering and one of her first creations, Une saison en enfer [a season in hell] is Al-Doranis favorite work.](https://eqeuyefvifz.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/e-archive/photos/1210/culture1_3.jpg?strip=all&lossy=0&w=1920&ssl=1) |
For the Yemen Times
Rouyat Al-Dorani is a young Yemeni female contemporary artist who has just launched her first exhibition of a collection of 50 oil paintings, glass paintings and sculptures. A prolific artist, she paints on wood, marble, glass, paper and even styrofoam.
The theme of the exhibition in the Shady Gallery is the link between art and gender. The one year-old Shady project is based on Rouyat Al-Dorani's own personal view of creating expression by using the resources and capacities of art to support gender equality and the MDGs through the Yemeni society.
Al-Dorani explained that, in Yemen, expressing violence against women is an important and sensitive task. Yemeni women are the victims of stereotyping and injustice that are neither reported nor referred to in the social system.
\”I want to project my sufferings as a women and that of all those who had been violated and were victims of social injustice
