Project involves showing work in Gaza but also sending works across Israeli siege lines for exhibiting worldwide
Ahmed Muhanna’s Unemployed Hope, Deir al-Balah, Gaza . The Biennale represents ‘a creative step outside the traditional frameworks of exhibitions’, said the artists.Ahmed Muhanna’s Unemployed Hope, Deir al-Balah, Gaza . The Biennale represents ‘a creative step outside the traditional frameworks of exhibitions’, said the artists.plan to stage a “biennale” exhibition as an act of defiance against Israel’s military onslaught and to focus attention on the plight of the territory’s 2.
“The biggest artistic events in the world are called biennales, hosting the world’s most important artists to address the most important things in the world through their art. For us, the most important artists in the world now are the artists of Gaza,” Shatat said. The organisers say that, if a host is found abroad to stage a Gaza Biennale, it will be an event unprecedented in modern times: artists under siege and starving managing to stage an exhibition on the world stage.
Hajj once had a studio in Gaza City but he has lost all that and has been moving from one tented camp to another. He said he planned to export his works, many of them allegorical drawings of Palestinian suffering, either through collaboration with a West Bank artist who would reinterpret his pieces, or by photographing them in high definition and sending them electronically to be printed on boards.
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