A piece that pulled my attention in the gallery behind the cafe DORIS is a video calling “Chic Point(2003)” by Sharif Waked. In this piece, male models are cat-walking on the runway, wearing a clothes that has teared up in certain parts of the male’s body. These clothes are actually the garments designed for people use at Israeli security checkpoints. The first thing I saw in this piece was a bunch of models wearing weird clothes that some parts are missing. So I thought that this is just making fun of people in fashion show. However, when I got to the end of the video, some images were shown and struck in my head immediately. The images were about the people in Mideast who have to hold their shirts up to their head when they are searched by securities while traveling between Palestine and Islael. I really like the structure of the video that the artist’s major concept, which is the design of clothes, is shown first, and then the inspiration, which is the striking images. I also liked artist’s satirical response to the problem observed in the borderline between Islael and Palestine. It made me thinking about the problem seriously, and standing in front of the piece for a long time.
