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Ausstellung in Bahrain über das Konzept von \"Sprache\". Werke, Statements, Text des Kurators.
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PARLIAMENT
Ideas become riper through language. Language preserves knowledge through images and undergoes a continual process of change. It also benefits the brain and helps improve our understanding and communication abilities. If our linguistic treasure gains importance, our knowledge base becomes stronger, since language richness is associated with intellectual treasure. Therefore, the learner should avoid excessive dependence on only images because they encourage laziness and apathy.
Language is a cultural and an intellectual treasure and a record of civilisation. When we teach a child the Arabic language, we actually teach him the Arab culture and how he commits to the values of Arabic-speaking nations, their way of thinking and vision of the world and objects surrounding him, which other means, like pictures, are unable to achieve.
Any language backwardness is accompanied by cultural backwardness and lack of patriotism, since language isn’t an innocent means of learning, but can be exploited positively or negatively. The value of Arabic language doesn’t lie in its sanctity but its role in instigating the sense of patriotism within the learner.
It is noteworthy that communication through the image culture is also of crucial importance. The image is now playing a considerable role in communication between people and in making a record of their activities as we have moved on from spoken and written culture to visual culture, which totally depends on the image thanks to technological development of modern means of communication. The image is always with us, consciously or unconsciously, through various forms of media, namely television, photographic image, the Internet, cinema, etc. Although the image plays a complementary role, it arouses emotions and feelings more than the mind and, naturally, can not be independent of language in terms of effective communication, even if the era of image has revealed otherwise.
This work aims to convey the idea of political conflict through linking the spoken language (Parliament), which means House of Representatives, with semiotic system (Traffic light signals), presumably and not actually fixed to the parliament wall. These signs have different meanings, but the symbolic significance is those groups who have or don’t have the right to represent people in parliament.
The green signs represent Bahrain’s "independent" religious groups – Sunnis and Shiites, who believe they have the right to win seats in parliament and are most welcome by many popular groups and some official bodies to be elected into parliament, their path being paved with flowers.
The red signs represent those liberal groups who are not liked by the political regime and some influential groups who, overtly and covertly, seek to stop these progressive nationalist groups reaching the parliament due to their principled stands on major issues concerning social justice and fighting all forms of corruption.
© Foto: Ammar Hammad
Ausstellung in Bahrain über das Konzept von \"Sprache\". Werke, Statements, Text des Kurators.