“Anti-Racism is a stand we all should take. It is important to point out racism in societies. We should go further when looking for a solution. More importantly, each individual should take responsibility to reflect on their role within society. I believe that we all hold a hybrid identity, especially looking at art as a great example.
Art is not identified by one aspect only. What I mean is one should go beyond the idea of differentiation based on race and only identifying racism in order to support and work on living in hybrid communities (cf. Bhabha), based on equality and including hybrid, intersectional identities.”

— MARWA ABOU HATAB

Marwa Abou Hatab (*1990 in Damascus) is an artist currently living in Vienna, where she is pursuing a Master's degree in Critical Studies and a Diploma in Fine Arts with Prof. Veronika Dirnhofer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her artistic practice ranges from drawing, installation/sculpture, photography and graphic design.

Currently, her main interests lie in the sociopolitical mechanisms of art education and the art world in general. She interrogates how artistic practices are entangled with current political developments and how they are reappropriated for representational purposes. Furthermore, she is interested in the relationship between art spaces and their politics of inclusion and exclusion from a subjective perspective. This interest of studying boundaries and cosmopolitan spaces is coming from a biographical experience of crossing borders (geographically, politically, personally and within the art sphere).

However, she regards certain traits of “identity politics“ as problematic because she does not want her artistic research to be seen from only one perspective, thus labelling her artistic practice under terms such as “refugee art“ or “Muslims art“. Given her specific situation, she feels that artworks should not be put into such a framework of the Artists’ specific identification.

Marwa Abou Hatab, from the series Abstract Mapping the AKBild Space and Structure, 2019, Ink & Fineliner on Paper. — Marwa Abou Hatab, from the series *Abstract Mapping the AKBild Space and Structure*, 2019, Ink & Fineliner on Paper.

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