Hilda Hiary
*1969
lives and works in Amman (Jordan)
hilda@hildahiary.com
www.hildahiary.com

- University of Jordan, Bachelor of Fine Art, Amman (Jordan)
- Al Zaytoonah University,
- HH is member of the board of directors in Jordanian plastic art association
- HH participated in many fine arts workshops in and out Jordan

2001 Bangladesh, Biennale Bangladesh
2001 Tunis (Tunesia), Biennale Tunis
2002 Rome (I), Santa Crosta
2003 Cairo (EG), Biennale Cairo
2003 Amman (Jordan), AF Expo Jordanian National Gallery

Object 1:

“Differences”
acrylic & different inks
mixed media
20 x 30 cm
2004

Object 2:

“RED@”
paper acrylic/paper
mixed media
20 x 20 cm
2004

Statement

I work always in the philosophy of circles .. it has many meanings .. everything arround us are circles.. even the complex of this world and we as human beings—we all go round and round in a fast motion want to reach somthing .. i wonder what is it!

Through my many travels around the world and my participation in local and internal exhibitions, and through my edification and my continuous exploration; my everlasting devotion was to explore all that is new; especially in art in general. I started to meditate in the forms all around me in addition to my numerous philosophical readings, what always caught my eye was the circle: my lines were always distorted, never straight: I dug deeper into my thoughts and soul to find all that is around me takes a circular shape, and there is nothing straight about our existence: I draw the whole universe on canvas varying from human interactions to daily dilemmas and conflicts that formulate our lives, and I examine what I see before me: the beginning of our creation was a spot, and all our lives are actually circular routs that revolve and drive us to thinking that we will actually find something: but the truth is that what we will find is nothingness, because we start from that dot and come back to were we started.
I stared my art work drawing on paper and canvas, and after journeying and mixing with variable cultures I started working on video art and book art. Maybe in my country there is limited experience in the book art section and a lot of people may not understand it, but now we have lot of positive response towards the book art from the Jordanian community.
i think book art is not a new art .. it was since old histories people used to write and draw on plants leavs making them all together as book .. it wasnt called (book art )that time..
The recognition of art can not be confided to one particular type, but it is inclusive to all forms art regardless of time and place; art can not be contained in a mural or a piece of sculpture, especially now with modern art and the interlocking of cultures such reflections can not be. It is our responsibility as artists to inform the world of the important progression in the artistic arena, into which the book art falls.
In Jordan we have begun to follow in the progress, although this can not be said about all artists we do have a good number of those who are always in search of what is new.
I, as an Arab Jordanian artist, when I am in my studio stroking my brush with all those magnificent colors tend to forget all differences, places and dimensions: I belong in my studio and my work is art; it has no boundaries or follow any particular school; I depict my inner self, my thoughts and my convictions, of course I am influenced a lot by all that goes on around me just like any other human being in my society: I do wish to change many things around me and hope for a different happier world. I do have a conviction though (an artist can bring a lot of change if he or she were vigilant and had faith and truthfulness in carrying their massage and philosophy into their art and hence forth to the viewers..

Hilda Hiary
Jordan