10/06/2021
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‘Watermelon’
Bideesh Batteekh (I Don’t Want Bu****it)
Acrylic paint on canvas
76 x 61 cm
2020
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Print: 20x20cm
Signed by artist
Kaoud’s oil paintings are assertive and defiant gestures of belonging, tinged with humour and playfulness. These paintings reflect a struggle to gain a sense of rootedness and assuage the sense of anxiety that comes from being disconnected from one’s home. The texts in the paintings play with Arabic expressions and the names of the fruits they illustrate.
Bideesh Batteekh of the watermelon translates to ‘I do not want watermelon’. Colloquially, the other meaning of the Arabic word for watermelon, 'Batteekh', is nonsense or bu****it. The phrase Bideesh Batteekh is also used to express the desire to not accept any bu****it from anyone.
⚠️ All proceeds of this months sales of Areej Kaoud’s collection will go to families in need in Palestine.