Hussein Shikha & Bebe Books naar Jan van Eyck academy
Starting soon their residency periods at the Jan Van Eyck Academy are former collective-in-residency Bebe Books, and artist Hussein Shikha, who is currently showing a monumental textile work at the flag pole near Cas-co.
Hussein Shikha is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and graphic designer, working with traditional motifs and rich heritage of Southern Iraqi carpet-making and textile, often at the edge of art and design. Hussein takes this personal experience of navigating displacement and diasporic cultural identity as a starting point.
Bebe Books is an ongoing collective experiment that operates through shared agency in creative labor, care and friendship in the field of communication design and publishing. By working together, we resist the modern myth of a singular heroic designer — what Ursula K. Le Guin referred to as“the narrative of the arrow or spear.” We consider ourselves as a queer collective not merely as a statement of identity, but as that of methodology. Besides the fact that the majority of our constituents are gender-non-conforming, we use our creative capacity and resources to design a context – be it a book, a gay bar, a temple, or a political campaign – where diverse marginalized experiences and voices can be represented.
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