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By Rebekah Drysdale| Daily Serving |15 April 2009
Nida Sinnokrot
April 15, 2009
Written by Rebekah Drysdale
Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot is currently exhibiting in this year’s Sharjah
Biennial, which runs until May 16th throughout several venues in the
Emirate. His powerful sculpture, Ka (JCB), seen above, is constructed of two
symmetrical JCB backhoe arms. With this symbolic placement, the artist
invokes the Egyptian concept of life force, or ka, signified in hieroglyphics
by 2 raised arms with the palms stretched outward. This commanding work
serves as both a monument to future peace and a comment on the
construction boom taking place in the Middle East.