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A lifetime in search of the meaning of life and death flashes by, showing the viewer the creation of an artist celebrating life, bowing to eternity, continuously looking for meaning, interpreting things with the superior understanding only artists have and subtly "diffusing" the message: life is eternal, we are fleeting embodiments of it, perpetually transformed and metamorphosed, never really "disappearing'; assuming different dimensions, living forever.

They are more of a series of works than of "phases" in the creator's artistic development. Throughout her life as an artist, Suha Shoman, at times perhaps unaware, used matter to express her spiritual search for immortality. Whether rock formations by the sea, a procession of women or, simply, the Nabataean city hewn in mountain rock, this symbol of eternity is ever present in Suha Shoman's artistic renditions.

Triumphantly surviving the adverse effect of man and nature, Petra seems deeply ingrained in the artist's psyche, signaling her permanent desire to find permanence. On the other hand, down in the Darat Al Funun, still making powerful use of symbols, water, the giver of life, is ever present. Giving it depth and, again, hinting at life cycles, light shimmers over the body of water, infinitesimal atoms first, like in the primeval soup from which life sprung, flickering gold later.

In the prime of life, and assuming a starry appearance last, at dusk, the sunset of life. The patient filming of the metamorphosis of light points to a tendency to introspection, deep meditation on life and its course, a desire to fuse and commune with nature and penetrate its secrets. It reveals the artist's spiritual preoccupation and the original way of expressing it.

Taking it all in and forced to meditate on life and its path, in the next room the viewer is confronted with even more powerful symbolism. After dealing with life and eternity, with metaphysical thought and the idea of eternity, one is faced with religious, or perhaps mythical, impressions, hinting at life choices - the road taken in life - and the cross we all have to carry.

Like a stubborn ant following a present route, the silhouette resolutely making its way up the hill on a winding path, that of Suha Shoman herself, is taking the road "somewhere, anywhere, elsewhere".

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Filmed at different times of the year, the summer of one's life and the winter pointing to an end, the walk is syncopated by a breathing pattern whose medical diagram is displayed on the wall, following the viewer's move and synchronized with the steps in the film. The labored breathing accompanies the strenuous walk, keeping company bringing life to the silent march towards the peak.

Carefully watching the unwavering procession of the walking figure will inevitably lead to thinking. Where does it start? Where will it end? Does it really ever end? What makes us choose a certain path in life? And what do we search along this path? Do we follow it towards an end and to the end? Would we choose it even if we knew where it leads?

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This exceptional site influenced the paintings and video installations that she has exhibited across the world Houston, Copenhagen, Alexandria Biennale, Singapore Biennale, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Her visual universe straddles the strict border between figuration and abstraction. A founding member of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation for the Arts alongside her husband Khalid sinceshe became the first female director of the Darat al-Funun in Amman a space dedicated to research and artistic creation unique in the Middle East in Suha Shoman, Chanson Mystiquec.

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