Seven Sins is a theme that addresses each and every one, but do we know exactly what is going on? The Seven Sins still reserve some mystery… Indeed, who would be able to list the seven deadly sins? And know their origin? The ambiguity and ambivalence of the Seven Sins make us realize that a single definition of the deadly sins cannot be found. They also tend to cancel each other: Pride compensates for Envy because to envy others is to recognize that they are lesser than. Lust and Greed are also contradictory… There is also the idea that a sin leads to other sins. All defects might be related to each other. Can we even say that every capital sin implies it’s opposite, and, vice and virtue are mysteriously related? That together they form humanity as the colors of the spectrum combined form the color white? Indeed, over the centuries, men, philosophers and poets gave different meanings to the same sin.

 

Hend Al Falafly, through this most recent body of works “Seven Sin” presents us with her personal definition of the subject by narrating through a series of situations, expressions and highlights her constant questioning: ”What could push a man /woman to fall into sin, which is not without the man who over time has been and is still found in human sins?