Suha shoman biography of william

About the work

Shoman’s first video, 2005’s Of Time and Light seemed also like a caesura in her career. However, it had come after Shoman’s first formal break out of the one dimensional framed canvas and paper in 1993, 1996 and 1995 with a number of installations: rows of black volcanic stone, assemblages of stone, or volcanic rocks installed in front of a large scale Petra painting.

In fact, both Of Time and Light and 2006’s I am Everywhere were a return to painting, to her large scale “portraits” of Petra stones and passageways. The resemblance extended from the visual aspect to the apparent thematic (earthly elements, rocks as measure of cyclical time, Petra landscape) and also the effect on the viewers, with –like abstract expressionists’- creation of a virtual environment that overwhelms the viewer’s senses and immerses her/him in an almost spiritual experience.

But even to non connoisseurs of her paintings, the two works relate more to still painting than to moving imag