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Sharif Waked
By Le Choismier Christophe
Born 1964 in Nazareth, Palestinia.
Visual Artist, Painter, Graphic Designer and Children's Books Illustrator.
Studies: 1983-1986 Haifa University, creative art and philosophy. Prizes: Anderson Prize and Mark of Distinction, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, for children's book illustration, "A Child Going Upstairs".
Lives and works in Haifa/Nazareth. He is part of a group of Palestinian artists emerging in the international scene and drawing much attention.
He exhibited his work at various international museums and biennials. The Video piece "Chic Pont" has recently been on display at the Tate Modern, London
In his works, Sharif Waked consistently explores and challenges the essence and boundaries of visual perception. Sight is fundamentally subjected tol fixation and is founded on the body's location, on the senses, on multiplicity and constant change.
Focus on : Chic Point (2003):
Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints draws the contours of the Palestinian Israeli quagmire on the male bodies of the models: The fashion show that the video simulates, where Waked explores visually the nexus of politics, consumption, and desire.
A seven minute video that imagines, and interrogates "fashion for Israeli checkpoints". Set to the backdrop of a heavy rhythmic beat. Men models with zippers, weaved nets, hoods, and buttons serve the unifying theme of exposed flesh. Raw materials and standard clothes are transformed into pieces that follow normative fashion standards while calling them into question.
As the sights and sounds of the fast paced catwalk dim to a close, the viewer is transported to the West Bank and Gaza. A series of photos from the years 2000 to 2003 display Palestinian men crossing the profoundly violent but highly common Israeli checkpoint. One man after another lifts shirts, robes, and jackets. Some kneel shirtless, others naked, with guns poised at their exposed flesh.
Chic Point brings these locations together in a reflection on politics, power, aesthetics, the body, humiliation, surveillance, and chosen as opposed to forced nudity. The body of the Palestinian, today commonly understood by the Israeli state as a dangerous weapon, is brought to the viewer´s eye in the flesh. Chic Point bares the loaded politics of the gaze as it documents the thousands of moments in which Palestinians are forced to nude themselves in the face of interrogation and humiliation, as they attempt to move through the expanding network of Israeli checkpoints.
Review by Le Choismier Christophe
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Curriculum
1997 Exhibition - Pyramid Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa - Haifa, Israel
1997 Exhibition - The Artists Museum, Cardiff - Cardiff, United Kingdom
1997 Exhibition - Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa - Haifa, Israel
1998 Exhibition - Sutton House, London - London, United Kingdom
1998 Exhibition - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Jerusalem, Israel
1999 Exhibition - Art Focus 3, Jerusalem - Jerusalem, Israel
1999 Exhibition - Zeryab Art Gallery, Ramallah - , Palestine
2000 Exhibition - Haifa City Museum, Haifa - Haifa, Israel
2001 Exhibition - The Villa Contemporary Art Center, Tel-Aviv - Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 Exhibition - Venice Biennial, Venice - Venezia, Italy
2002 Works - Iconic Panopticon, Ars Electronica - Linz, Austria
2002 Exhibition - Ars Electronica, Linz - Linz, Austria
2002 Exhibition - Hagar Art Gallery, Jaffa - Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 Works - Chic Point : "fashion for Israeli checkpoints - , Palestine
2003 Exhibition - Witte de Witt Museum, Rotterdam - Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003 Exhibition - .M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah - , Palestine
2003 Exhibition - Home Works II, Beirut - Beirut, Lebanon
2003 Exhibition - The 6th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah - , Palestine
2004 Exhibition - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London - London, United Kingdom
2004 Exhibition - UNESCO, Paris & Geneva, - Paris, France
2004 Exhibition - Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya - , Palestine
2004 Exhibition - Impakt 2003, Utrecht - Utrecht, Netherlands
2004 Exhibition - United Nations, New York - New York, United States
2004 Exhibition - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome - Roma, Italy
2005 Exhibition - Transmediale 05, Berlin - Berlin, Germany
2006 Exhibition - Tate Museum, London (Chic Point) - London, United Kingdom
2007 Exhibition - E-Flux (EVR), Boston - Boston, United States
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