Mounira Al Solh works with video, painting and photography. She engages with issues related to the story of Lebanese immigrants and the socio-political and religious conflicts. She uses a fictional and, at times, even fantastical approach, through which she transforms the dramatic into the ironic. Her work links issues of personal identity with aesthetics, such as in ‘As If I Don’t Fit There’ (2005), a video installation presented at the Lebanese Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007). The video explores her personal fear of ceasing to be an artist and her doubts about her own place in the art world, as she slowly takes on the identity of four fictional artists she presents in her work. In ‘Rawane’s Song’ (2006), Al Solh expresses her ‘refusal to talk about the war.’ As critic Hans Beerekamp wrote, the video is a ‘work of fiction about running away from reality and finding yourself.’ Al Solh is also Editor-in-chief of NOA (Not Only Arabic) Magazine, the third issue of which will centre around ‘Language and Schizophrenia’, a topic she started working with in 2010. Her interest in spoken language and its effect on visual imagination can be seen in ‘The Mute Tongue’ (2010). In the video, she staged, in silent vignettes, 19 Arabic proverbs that she uses in daily life.
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