Tarek al ghoussein biography definition
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Tarek al ghoussein biography definition
Tarek Al-Ghoussein
Kuwaiti Palestinian visual artist (1962–2022)
Tarek Al-Ghoussein | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1962-01-17)17 January 1962 Kuwait |
| Died | 11 June 2022(2022-06-11) (aged 60) New York City, USA |
| Citizenship | Kuwait |
| Occupation | artist |
Tarek Al-Ghoussein (Arabic: طارق الغصين; 17 January 1962[1] – 11 June 2022),[2][3] was a Kuwaiti Palestinian multi-genre artist best known for his work that investigates the margins between landscape photography, self-portraiture, and performance art.
His work moved away from subjects of land, belonging, nostalgia and barriers and instead gravitated toward the metaphorical transit to his ancestral homeland - Palestine. He moved between abstraction and the explicit conditions found in certain places.[4]
Career
Tarek Al-Ghoussein was born in Kuwait to Kuwaiti parents of Palestinian ancestry who were originally displaced from their ancestral homeland in Ramleh, Palestine.
His father, Tal