This article questions the symbolic representations of women and their spiritual and physical belongings in contemporary arts. In the Islamic world, there are many pop cultures that produced different symbolisms of feminine images, and used it in different socio political contexts to express symbolic messages. Such symbolisms may express spiritual connotations referring to religious backgrounds, while others may not because artists in the Islamic world represent many social issues from their communities. Such issues are diverse that range from political, social, spiritual as well as high individual issues that are very subjective in nature. Artists in the Islamic world use the feminine image to express their multicultural environment, while they link the physical and spiritual elements to the global cultures...

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the artworks of contemporary Middle Eastern artists in Singapore Biennale regarding to the social reality issues. The subjects within the research context were the role of Middle Eastern artists in responding to the issues of social reality and the uniqueness of their artistic representations. The research also looked at the contribution of the artworks within the concept of glocalization that challenged the stereotypical representations of social issues. The methodology used in this research was qualitative content analysis, which categorized the phenomenon of social reality into a coding framework and interpreted their symbolisms according to the Iconography and Iconology theory. The research samples were 11 artworks as well as the documents analysis method. The research revealed that the contemporary Middle Eastern artists focused their criticized mainstream social representations regarding gender role, cultural identity, political con.....

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