Artist: Bahia Shehab
Date: 2017
Museum: Nuart Festival (Stavanger, Norway)
Technique: Mural
Bringing her fighting spirit to Stavanger to educate and inspire, university professor Bahia Shehab shows us how her art came to live on our streets with a message of resistance during the Egyptian revolution. “Art is wonderful, it inspires, but it does not push for action sometimes… If you really want change, which is what we need, at least in my part of the world, we need to do more than just art.” Translated to “How Big is The Idea”, Shehab’s mural in Stavanger is based on the third stanza of a poem by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, which reads in full,
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