MAHMOOD KAISS | ‘ THE DOME’
Mahmood Kaiss
(Born in 1985, Nahaf, Israel)
Lives and works in Haifa, Israel.
Mahmood Kaiss received his MFA in Fine Art from University of Haifa. Despite his young age, Kaiss’ installations are already held in three Museums shows: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Art and The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. Kaiss is considered to be one of the most promising Palestinian artists active in the Israeli art scene.
The arabesque – an ornamentation style, stunningly intertwining vegetal or geometric designs—is at the center of Mahmood Kaiss’ practice, which retains some traditional arabesque characteristics, while making far-reaching modifications with others. Using transformation, abstraction and hybridization, Kaiss examines the severing of a from, its familiar image and its translocation into a different stylistic, material, spatial and theoretical world and deals with questions of Islamic vs. western culture, identification, belonging and detachment.
Photography by Shai Halevi © Courtesy the artist and Zemack Gallery.
