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help LIGHT the world with your participation click here
"Jerusalem needs visual liberation. This can only be achieved if a new dimension is added to the photographs. This dimension exists in us—deep in the imagination. Reaching that dimension requires a deep look, a journey into the minds of many people; where they will all unite to ‘rebuild’ and ‘reconstruct’ Jerusalem."
AECI Spanish Agency for International Cooperation
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An Invitation to Palestinians Across the World jerusalem in exile – tangible memories is a project that explores and searches for the visual images of Jerusalem in the minds of Palestinians globally. The project is based on the assumption that Jerusalem currently exists as a city in 'exile', where Palestinians are forbidden from accessing it. The project also seeks to create a new perception of Jerusalem; liberating it from clichés and slogans, and reconstructing a relationship to it that is more alive, real and intimate. Through artistic means, the new images of Jerusalem will be replenished and charged with ways that transcend the forced reality on the ground.
jerusalem in exile - tangible memories has been initiated by the Palestinian artist Steve Sabella, and he executes it with poet Najwan Darwish. In this project, Palestinians can share and explore different views on Jerusalem, identity and exile; in effect, enticing people to share their experiences. The project will photographically ‘materialize’ the various mental images Palestinians have of Jerusalem in their memories and imagination.
Palestinians are all invited wherever they are located to participate in this project by sending descriptions of their personal mental images of Jerusalem. A selection of these mental images will be photographically materialized and will appear together with their texts in a book in the Arabic and English language. Among the participants will be a number of distinguished Palestinians artists, writers and intellectuals. In conclusion, the work will also be inaugurated in Jerusalem in the form of an exhibition and will subsequently tour various cities globally.
Incoming participations will be uploaded to the project web site and every time a participation is received, its country of origin will be lit up on the map. Hopefully, in time, Palestinians will light the whole Map of the World.
CLICK HERE for Steve Sabella’s art statement, which presents the art project’s idea and includes an invitation to participate in this exceptional art project.
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