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- Country of residence: Syria
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is a Palestinian visual artist. He was born in Damascus in 1968 from a Palestinian family that emigrated from the city of Nazareth in 1948. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts - Department of Sculpture - Damascus University in 1992. He is a member of the General Union of Palestinian Plastic Artists, and a member of the General Union of Syrian Plastic Artists. He participated in the first and second Hope Forum for Young Sculptors (1998-1999).
He participated in the Golan Forum for Plastic Arts in 2002. He participated in many group exhibitions for the Syrian Ministry of Culture and the General Union of Syrian and Palestinian Plastic Artists. Member of the Swedish Professional Cooperative Association. Member of the Swedish Artists Union. Solo exhibition at Wit Bros-Udevala Gallery 2107. Participated in a group exhibition at KKV-Bohuslän Konsthall 2017. Participated in the expanded events of the International Liebennale for Contemporary Art 2017. He also participated in the Bohuslän Salon 2017. Participated in the Nordic Salon 2017. Participated in the Stone Workshop ( Creative Hands) in Kumla 2018. The war, the catastrophic situation, and the tragic circumstances in Syria led him and his family to seek refuge in Sweden in 2014. He lives in the city of Udvala, western Sweden, where he works as an art teacher and an independent artist. Imad Rashdan is a photographer and sculptor who works with many different materials and techniques and is interested in interactive styles of artistic presentation.
Imad takes on the role of narrator in his art, presenting our daily stories that unite us as human beings and tell us who we truly are. At a time when politicians use religion to separate us, Imad Rashdan uses art instead to highlight how similar and harmonious we are. He wants to bring us closer together regardless of affiliation, religion or politics. Stories are the basis of our coexistence, and those who seek to manipulate religions have no place here. People's daily activities are strikingly similar everywhere. They are instinctive and spontaneous, in contrast to those who use religion as a means to justify their interests and impose hegemony must leave room for the Illuminati and those Imad presents in his narrative about life and death, love and hate as well as sadness and joy. Stories about whether we are saints or infidels, lovers or murderers, as well as criminals or victims. Stories that leave scars on our souls and bodies and continue silently.
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