Selected Works
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through my artworks, I examine the possibility and meaning of detaching the form from its familiar, traditional framework and transporting it to a different stylistic, material, spatial, and conceptual realm – a strategy that raises a range of questions concerning context.
My series of installations preserves certain characteristics of the traditional forms, yet entirely foregoes some of its other characteristics or introduces into them far-ranging changes. In doing so, it fuses this form with the modern and contemporary tradition of readymade art and of site-specific installations.
I am concerned with questions of place, belonging, and identity, which continue to be relevant and highly pressing for a Palestinian who was born in 1985 in Israel. In my artworks I deal with the sense of estrangement and strangeness experienced in my homeland, Where do I feel at home?” alludes to a concrete space, as well as to a symbolic emotional, spiritual and political state. In addition to their abstract or spiritual dimension, My installations raise questions concerning the reality of the here-and-now, and concretization plays an important part in my work.
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Mahmood Kaiss, Arabesque #3, 2015
Wood Installation at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 340 x 1300 x 118 cm

Mahmood Kaiss, Arabesque #3, 2015
Wood Installation at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 340 x 1300 x 118 cm

Mahmood Kaiss, Arabesque #3, 2015
Wood Installation at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 340 x 1300 x 118 cm

Mahmood Kaiss, Arabesque #3 (Fragment), 2015
Wood Installation at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 118 x 340 cm
Edition: 1300

Mahmood Kaiss, Arabesque #5, 2019
Wood Installation, 320 x 200 cm

Mahmood Kaiss, Arabesque #5 (Fragment), 2019
Wood Installation, 160 x 160 cm

Mahmood Kaiss, The Dome, 2017
Wood Installation at The Islamic Museum, Jerusalem, 250 x 400 x 400 cm

Mahmood Kaiss, The Dome (Detail), 2017
Wood Installation at The Islamic Museum, Jerusalem

Mahmood Kaiss, Concrete Coin,
Concrete

Mahmood Kaiss, Concrete Coin #2,
Acrylic and oil on concrete

Mahmood Kaiss, Concrete Coin #3,
Acrylic and oil on concrete

Mahmood Kaiss, Concrete Coin #4,
Concrete











