I always think of animals as a way to speak about human situations and to express what men and women in the Arab world live through. I show it indirectly.
When I was working on this series, I thought a lot about intensive farming and the slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse as a metaphor for human blood, for torture, for the destruction of people in the service of a political ideology…
That is the title of my paintings. Why the slaughterhouse? Because it resembles what the Syrian population is living through: they are sacrificed. I carry scenes from my memories of the war in Syria and of my move to Cairo, where I did not live much better than in Damascus; other social and political problems poisoned life there.
I try to translate the social and political problems currently at stake in that region of the world.