Damascus - Sana
The book Female Shadow and Light is a reading by the Syrian writer Talal Mortada about the women's plastic experience in Austria.
Mortada begins the book with a historical overview of plastic life in Austria and its capital, Vienna, which he likens to Damascus, pointing out that he collected this book from newspaper articles published in reading those women's experiences.
During a symposium on the book held by the Cultural Center in Abu Rumaneh today, critic Omar Jumaa referred to the writer and critic Mortada’s endeavor to build a bridge of artistic communication between Vienna and Damascus through his book, referring to the Austrian society’s view of the artist’s woman whose active role cannot be denied in countries that have lived through the scourge of wars, referring to the Book chapters and Mortada's critical view of Austrian women artists and his reading of their works.
The plastic artist Talal Bitar also pointed out that the writer Mortada presented the Austrian plastic movement from a literary vision rather than an artistic one, and the reason is that he is a writer and writer who sees with the eye of the creator of letter, not the creator of color, pointing to the importance of the book stemming from being a bridge to communicate with Austria and introducing us to names and works that formed part of the artistic movement in Austria.
The media evening was moderated by Ilham Sultan, who showed a documentary film in which she was introduced to Mortada's biography and literary works and the paintings of artists, the subject of the book, noting that Mortada is a Syrian poet, writer, doctor and member of the Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists.
Bilal Ahmad