Hatem Trab

The essence of the idea in my plastic works, is a recall of a subjective visual memory through, which I invest the local cultural heritage and upgrading it towards a contemporary artistic vision. Color, calligraphy, and space are elements that I draw from symbolic images found in traditional dress, local architecture, and forgotten stories related to women in southern Tunisia. This inspiration revolves around the problems of the black color, in which I found local privacy. My plastic arts experience, resides in the context of abstract and symbolic expression, but with an overlapping style and technique. It combines drawing as sweeping space (two-dimensional), and the use of extraneous materials to give texture and depth (three-dimensional) by sewing and texture. Its purpose is to bypass color flattening, and work to find prominent protrusions and a third dimension, by folding the canvas and employing extraneous materials such as strings. It is a plastic game, her bet was hold the light and black shades, on the surface of the painting. The objective is to stroke the black color and test his presence and authority over the neighboring colors. This Work methodology moves with the imagination of unruly memory and its alluring pictures, as if it were reminiscent and recall of the image of the woman in my imagination.