Mounira Al Solh

Posters by artists have always been one of the strong points of steirischer herbst’s festival program. In the 1970s, some of them even made headlines and created a local scandal. Without necessarily aiming at one but carrying on the tradition strongly connected to Graz and its people, the festival this year wants to disrupt the public space, nowadays saturated with glossy images of all kinds, with new artist’s works, sometimes enigmatic but always memorable. Artists were asked to react to the slogan The Way Out, but not necessarily to illustrate or refer to it directly. What we see are not always posters in the strict sense, but fragments of the artists’ rich imagination, fluctuating freely between scenes of pure fantasy, split-second life impressions, and direct political statements.

Bio
Mounira Al Solh (1978, Beirut, Lebanon) is an artist who works with a mix of videos, video installation, painting, drawing, embroidery, and performative gestures. Always self-reflexive and ironic, her work delves into feminist issues and personal histories and can be political and escapist all at once. She lives in Beirut and Zutphen.