Manar Zuabi
Manar Zuabi is a Palestinian artist, curator, activist, and educator. She works in various mediums including performance, installation, drawing, and video art. Zuabi is one of the founders of the experimental school "Masar" in Nazareth. She holds BA and MFA degrees in Fine Arts from the University of Haifa, as well as a bachelor's degree in Physical Education with contemporary dance as major from Wingate Institute.
She teaches at MFA in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, as well as at Oranim College of Education, and has taught at the Hebrew University, University of Haifa, and at Beit Berl College. Zuabi has released two catalogs: Scratched Horizon in 2022, and On a Thin line in 2015.
Zuabi has participated in international exhibitions in different cities. Her artistic language has been studied academically as part of advanced research degrees.
Zuabi addresses questions of identity and culture, merging art and life from a political and social perspective. In her installations, she presents the transient moments in life and art simultaneously, using materials like socks, wool threads, and hairpins, which deteriorate over time and disintegrate at the end of the display. Through her performances, Zuabi touches on urgent existential states. She also reveals the marginalization of Palestinian Arab culture from the public space and intentionally uses interactive performance to reintroduce Arabic language to it. Additionally, she merges the worlds of art and dance, utilizing the body in various emotional and sensory states. Her video works serve as extensions of her performances.