Joha’s recent compositions are built on a skeleton of architectural horizontal and vertical lines, organically bent into variation, crossed by precise details appearing on the scene and brought to Life by the colorful materials he uses, which are old cloth, paper and carton.
The depth and appeal of his artwork derives from the formal and clear composition on the one hand, alongside with the playful, organic and carefully placed colorful and light interaction of material and, on the other hand, the serious, suffocating and devastating reality behind his compositions.
Representing the chaotic and organic architecture in Gaza, destroyed, rebuilt, devastated, rebuilt again with only cloth and whatever else there is as building material, Mohammed Joha tells the endless story of living in over generations institutionalized confinement, under the ever-underlying threat of re-destruction, while the over-densely populated area steadily grows in terms people living in it.
The architectural representation in Mohammed Joha’s work hints in an unobtrusively direct fashion at the society it houses, caught for eternity between the explicitly temporary nature of their homes, whilst throughout latest history becoming the only perspective there is since and
for generations.
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