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Solo Exhibitions for 2007-2008
My recent exhibitions have included installations where the pattern snakes down from the walls to the floor.

Soap Story, Khaldiyeh's River Rocks and Selections from Stripes & Stars
Ninapi Gallery, Ravenna, Italy, March 22, 2008- June 2008
When I went to Italy last summer I began a new and unexpected installation that required the opening to be delayed until March 22, 2008. It is now up! The installation specifically explores the relationships between Ravenna, its role in Italy's history with that of Syria/Lebanon/Palestine's synthesis of Roman and Byzantine culture. See the "poster" below. If you are interested in a copy of this poster it is 11"x17", $25 inclusive of shipping, emai: doris.bittar@gmail.com



Qisas Al Finjan: Coffee Stories
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library , La Jolla, California, February 16 - March 22, 2008
"Coffee Stories" entails photographs and wall paintings with text to an animation and performance.
One of the featured stories is about Abou Mousa, a mihbash player in the Nahr Al Barad Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. A mihbash is a mortar and pestle with an enclosed base to grind coffee in. While grinding coffee, it becomes a percussion instrument that fills the air with rhythmical sound and the scent of coffee. The installation photos below show a pattern painted onto the wall that continues onto the floor as a drawing made of coffee grounds. The still photograph superimposes an image of the giant waterwheels along the Assi River in Hama, Syria onto the patterned and elaborate coffee silt that remains in the cup.