Alsajanjal
Group exhibition in Bahrain on the concept of "language". Artworks, statements, curator's text.
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Anglo-Arabian
Human race remains upon decades in a confusion between the pros and cons of technology. Especially in the Arab world, where people are considered major technology consumers but are not involved by any matter in the technology production.
Technology is blindly consumed heedlessly ignoring the dimensions of the other face of it. The vast majority of individuals in the Arab world look at technology always as a positive thing with no flaws, they seem to think that the obtainment of modern equipment is an evidence of technical progress. We see these individuals compete in the acquisition of the newest and most expensive devices and boast about it regardless of their ability of knowing and learning the simplest rules of operating these devices which limits the benefits and increases the misuse by out pacing the moral boundaries that should not be exceeded.
The emergence of the enormous technical sophistication and the emergence of the Internet to all users created a language of which enables the users to deal with this quantum of rapid development of technology and even compensate for the lack of Arabic language developed into their own language.
Dealing through the developed Arabic language was raised by various reasons such as using shortcuts instead of normal conversations by replacing Arabic script characters with English characters and using some numbers as a replacement character e.g. using the number 7 in English instead of the letter "Ha" in Arabic, using number 2 to replace " Hamza" in the begging of the sentence or replacing some of the Arabic words by others in English as modern skill such "cancel, check and using the word message" in addition to many other phrases that are considered normal because we are used to using and seeing them. The intent of using this developed Arabic language is not to change the original Arabic language as much as it is a habit that we got used to because of the modern development and acceleration of all the daily transactions of societies.
Young generations get used to this new language because it is easier to communicate which is acceptable as long as it should not be used in a bad form that harms their identity and their home language. The new language can be used when dealing with other people indirectly and not in universities, schools, hospitals, restaurants, etc.
© Photo: Ammar Hammad
Group exhibition in Bahrain on the concept of "language". Artworks, statements, curator's text.