Artist field note

Marwan

The face becomes a landscape of memory and exile.

Marionette by Marwan
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Marionette

2007

A hanging figure makes bodily vulnerability and political powerlessness painfully direct.

The five in one idea

Marwan expanded portraiture until a single head could contain personal history and the trauma of a region.