











\nJarram uses the portrait Push The Button <\/em>to characterize this subject matter.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\u201cHis face has been painted as if he were a clown, with a red dot (the button) on his nose as a metaphor for his explosive personality! These youths feel misunderstood; although everybody in this country is talking about them no one really seems to know them. With the rise of populism, the gap between the Islamic and Western cultures in which these youths are living has only widened. In my watercolours and paintings I am trying to give them a face and a platform. I want to show their fears, but also their successes and hopes, sometimes bringing a humorous undertone to this serious topic. Most portraits are based on selfies that they share on social media. This is where I get my images, it\u2019s the pond from which I fish.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Push The Button Nour-Eddine Jarram paintings, works on paper 8 January – 5 February 2017 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]For some time now, Nour-Eddine Jarram (1956) focuses on current events concerning the refugee crisis and the position of immigrant youths in our society. In 1979, Jarram came to Enschede, The Netherlands from Casablanca to continue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-7460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition-2017","tag-nour-eddine-jarram-en","category-419","description-off"],"yoast_head":"\n