Mooney’s work is based on the seeking and exploration of Soul. Enlightening and recovering the “Soul” of herself and others through the lens. Her work is most often socially-engaged: although she also loves to photograph as a street photographer and portrait artist, she uses her lens as a medium of social change. In her work...
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Anil Jacob Kunnel, German filmmaker
Anil Jacob Kunnel (*1984) is a German researcher, film writer and director. In his film work, he likes to address current social and political issues by using storytelling. He is interested in how humans connect and disconnect especially through technology, and how this shapes our world. Born to South-Indian immigrants, Kunnel wrote his first...
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Ongoing clay project, by Vanessa Donoso
Sharing the experience with our residents eating in the ceramics made from our garden’s clay. “Building narratives that helps us to built a world that gives us more questions, more possibilities to discover, more surfaces to touch, more structures to define, more grammar to invent”. As wonderfully as Vanessa tells… Credits pictures Silvia Donoso López
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Artist conversations with Ng’endo Mukii & Tania Adam
N’gendo Mukii was the selected artist by Africa Centre-Jiwar AIR residence program in the 5th edition of collaboration. As an award-winning film director, she’s most well known for her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women’s ideals of beauty. Her work focuses on relationships, the separation between perception and reality and the use of moving...
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Daniel Pabst, photographer and musician
Daniel Pabst was born in 1971 in Vienna. He began working as a photographer at his father’s gallery, Galerie Michael Pabst, in Munich. He has shown work at PhotoMonth Festival in London (2015), at the Photo::vienna exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (2015), at the EyeEm Awards in New York City (2015),...
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Nidaa Aboulhosn, visual artist in residence
Nidaa Aboulhosn is a Lebanese-American artist working in photography, video and animation. In her photographic work, she creates metaphor-driven image sequences to evoke a tangential mode of perception. Extracting fragments from everyday life in different locales, she searches for the magical amid the dismal, at times filtering the “real” through the lens of the absurd...
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Vanessa Donoso López, artist in residence
Vanessa Donoso López, born in Barcelona, has been living and working in Dublin, Ireland, for the last 15 year. Her work features “observations of language, cross-cultural identity, acculturation processes, homesickness and the compatibility between cultures that are continually present”. During her residency at Jiwar, Vanessa has been working with clay dug at the garden of the...
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Alaa Satir interviewed by Lluna Rebel, independent feminist art media
Interview with Alaa Satir Drawings using humour from a feminist viewpoint to make reflect on gender, race and religion Alaa Satir, sudanese illustrator and graphic designer in residence at Jiwar with the second edition of the Xabaca project. We invite you to watch her interview with Lluna Rebel (in catalan with English subtitles).
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Sondos Shabayek interviewed by the catalan TV
Interview with Sondos Shabayek: “We internalize the voices of our sorroundings and we become our own censors” The Egyptian journalist, scriptwriter, writer and dramatist, in residence at Jiwar for the second edition of the Xabaca project, offered her perspective in the Més 3/24 program of the Catalan state TV. You can watch the interview (in catalan) here...
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Alaa Satir, cartoonist and illustrator
Alaa Satir is a Sudanese cartoonist from Khartoum, graduated as an architect from the University of Khartoum. She is currently working as graphic designer, illustrator and cartoonist. Various offices and NGOs used her visual art. She made her first personal exhibition in 2017 called Morning Doodles, addressing topics like feminism, social media and politics . She...
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