“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your
heart... live in the question.” - Rainer Maria Rilke.
The beach is for me a place filled with energy, the sounds of waves coming and going, waves crashing onto rocks violently as if it wanted to break them into pieces, as if it wanted to create a disaster... waves caressing gently the sands as if you are caressing the face of your beloved one; high tides and low tides mirroring our emotions. The immensity of the Ocean comparable to human thought.
Like a drop of water that leaves the abyss to settle on a beach, our deepest thoughts come from unexplored sides of our minds.
The photographs that I present to you are my transcriptions of what solitude evoke in my being. A series of photographs describing loneliness with light. I invite you, strangers of me, to mirror yourselves to these photographs and question the unexplored sides of your mind by transcending yourselves in these moments that I was able to capture. Moments where I was transported into these spacetime.
professional category
Trenches Of Solitude (Series)
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
Hussein Makke was born in 1995 in Beyrouth from a Lebanese father and a Filipino mother, he moved shortly after birth to Ivory Coast and spent his childhood in the city of Abidjan before going to Lebanon in 2015 to pursue his studies in Cinema. Due to his mixed culture, and his relationship growing up around and mentored by Joana Choumali, Dorris Haron Kasco, Seibou Traore and his dad Abbas Makke, Identity and Self-Knowledge plays a big part in his work.
Exhibition :
-French Cultural Center in Abidjan (CI) 2012 and 2014
-Zenith Class in Los Angeles (USA) 2019
-Praxis Gallery Minneapolis (USA)
-Art Space Huntington Park Los Angeles (USA) 2023
Nominee for the 6th/7th/9th fine art photography awards
Exhibition :
-French Cultural Center in Abidjan (CI) 2012 and 2014
-Zenith Class in Los Angeles (USA) 2019
-Praxis Gallery Minneapolis (USA)
-Art Space Huntington Park Los Angeles (USA) 2023
Nominee for the 6th/7th/9th fine art photography awards
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