Arab culture joins the LGBT community in a groundbreaking exhibition, promoted by the Arab World Institute in Paris, which will open its doors to the public on November 13.
The exhibition Habibi: The Revolutions of Love aims to give a voice to the people of the group who are also part of the Muslim community, to express their experiences from their countries of origin or from exile through contemporary art. Above all, they want the viewer to reflect on how they live and share their identity with the Islamic world.
The exhibition has been well received "especially by young people," Nada Majdoub, associate curator of the collection, explained to Efe, and has a total of 23 artists from Sudan, Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon, among others.
This gallery of artistic manifestations, made up of intimacy and love in a lively and dynamic way, shows the reality of being LGTB: suffering and rejection in some sectors of the population. For this reason, they want Habibi to be at the same time an act of vindication of their rights based on a composition that includes both heartbreak portraits as well as photographs and short films.
One of the works that stands out is the interactive room of the artistic duo Jeanne et Moreau, which represents the relationship at a distance. Similarly, Lebanese artist Chaza Charafeddine fuses Islamic art with photographs of transgender women and gay men, and comic book illustrator Léa Djeziri symbolizes the diverse creative expressions within the Arab world.
