Jasmine
Drawing / 500cm x 47cm / black pencil / text / Algeria / 2004
This drawing is meant to be presented with the video Annaba, Algrie, 2004
Jasmin is the story of a mother who suffers because her
daughter wants to be independent and takes a completely different way than the
one expected from her mother.
ćA veiled woman thinks while walking along a road with an horizon of
buildings. Her thoughts scroll
down in a form of subtitle. The form of the drawing juxtaposing different
moments at the same time reminds us the form of a storyboard as well as the
middle aged friezes which were usually depicting different scenes on one level.
Jasmine tells about the sorrows of a mother
concerning her daughter who became a singer.
The discrepancy between the contemporary
architecture in the background and the entirely veiled woman underline the
paradox of the big cities where tradition and modernity cohabit.Ó
*Sophie Collombat, (original text is in french)
article published in paris-art.com, while the exhibition in Public, Paris 2005.
www.paris-art.com/artiste_detail-2812-schweizer.html
