Graduate Studies

Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design (MA, MDes and MFA)

Huda Salha

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Unmasked

“Throughout history, art has served a political function. Therefore, artists and intellectuals can play a major role in emancipating the world and eventually dismantling dominant colonial powers. Hopefully, they can also inspire positive change and bring an end to the absurdity and all the injustices inflicted by humans on fellow humans. Undoubtedly, artists as activists have the ability to transgress boundaries and mobilize their art to reaffirm the past and counter the colonizers’ agendas aimed at disfiguring and destroying the cultural past of native peoples, distorting reality and misleading the public to rationalize the atrocities perpetrated by these dominant systems. ”