IN/OUT Festival – Ahmad Salameh
16 Oct 2019 - 31 Oct 2019
6:00-7:30 pm
Country: Jordan
Title: “Waddima, Zeer, and twelve pairs of shoes”
Type: Installation & Video
Location: The Boulevard
Date: 20 October 2019
Ahmad is an artist and researcher who cooks in between. He received his BA in visual arts from Jordan University studied drawing and painting at the Institute of Fine Arts, along with clothes-making in Amman, Jordan. His artistic practice is centered on deconstructing the quotidian or the politics of the everyday through an emphasis on its overlooked paradoxes, as an attempt to arrive at a consideration of the mundane. His artistic practice is also influenced by his passion for cooking, which manifests in cross-disciplinary projects that interrogate the production and consumption of food in relation to the constitution of space and social relations, as well as notions of absence and transience.
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Zeer
If you decide to drop by, then do, if you don’t drop by, then don’t
It doesn’t matter to me, it doesn’t matter
If you want to love another then do, if you don’t love another then don’t
it doesn’t matter to me, it doesn’t matter
You are very well known with a high standing
I have much appreciation for you
But you leave and your love affairs are not allowed
And your excuses will not work with me
Twelve pairs of shoes:
If you pity me, then do. if you don’t, then don’t
It’s not easy for me, I don’t care
If you want to fight, lets!
If you don’t, that’s even better
That is not the issue, it’s not even an issue
Your love is selfish, certainly
And you think you are the only one and you’re stubborn
You say lonely and stubborn
What are you looking for?
Did you find it?
You are pushing it to the edge. the situation is tough
If you’re honest or not
What difference does it make!
That is not the issue, it’s not even an issue
If it matters to me then it matters, it doesn’t matter then it doesn’t
That is not the issue, it’s not even an issue
Waddima:
This song began
Since we have been at odds for six thousand years
And if time allows it would be kept a secret international scandal
If my night was ruined let it be ruined, if not…it’s a blessing.
You are not my night and this is not a story