Between Here and Somewhere Else
The first in a series of exhibitions of new work by Helen de Main and Maj Hasager
Palestinian Art Court - Al Hoash, Jerusalem : 22 April - 28 May
www.betweenhere.net
Opening:
The Palestinian Art Court – Al Hoash cordially invite you to attend the opening of Between Here and Somewhere Else on Thursday 22 April 2010 at 19.00.
Between Here and Somewhere Else is a project that has been initiated by artist’s Helen de Main (UK) and Maj Hasager (DK) and has developed out of a number of research periods spent in 1948 land of Palestine and the Occupied Palestinian Territories between 2007 and 2010. Selected areas were visited relating to the destroyed Palestinian villages of the 1948 war. These included the districts of Jaffa, al-Ramlah, Gaza, Hebron as well as the neighbourhood of Silwan. The exhibition will travel from Jerusalem, to Bethlehem, then Ramallah, and the artists will present different works in each of the locations, connecting to their experiences of spending time in each of the sites.
For the inaugural exhibition at al-Hoash de Main presents an installation of bronzes in Silwan Hoard – Abasi Family and a series of photo polymer prints, A Month in Ramallah – Al Quds / Guardian, and Hasager presents the photographic and textual historiography Memories of Imagined Places, the documentary film On Site and the installation Imperial Airways Gaza.
These works explore ideas related to the production and subsequent narration of histories, through oral, written and visual traditions and the role of personal and collective memory within these dialogues. Works in the exhibition reference museum like modes of presentation, as past and contemporary histories are examined through an archaeology of objects and stories collected from across the area. These consider the role of cultural heritage, conservation and preservation pitched against iconoclasm and forms of destruction.
Based in a city where so many contradictory narratives exist, the artist’s investigate systems of rhetoric’s and propagandist techniques that create images of a place and enable the distribution of opposing points of view on the same landscape. Furthermore by looking at different positions in which the narratives appear from – the works shift between the gaze of the foreigner, the storyteller, the researcher and stories being told by the inhabitants of a space now and then.
The exhibition is accompanied by a specifically commissioned essay by the Palestinian / Australian artist Sary Zananiri.
Palestinian Art Court - Al Hoash, Jerusalem Email: info@alhoashgallery.org, www.alhoashgallery.org
Zaitouna Mansion, 7 Zahra Street, East Jerusalem. Tel : 02 62 73 501
Exhibition will tour to:
al-Kahf Gallery, The International Center of Bethlehem : 21 May - 16 June
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah: 10 - 24 June
Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art: 13 November 2010 – 17 January 2011
Organized and produced by:
Helen de Main and Maj Hasager with Palestinian Art Court- alHoash.
Supported by:
A.M Qattan Foundation, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Artschool Palestine, British Council, Danish Arts Council, The National Workshops for Art and Design, Scottish Arts Council
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