Sixteen young Palestinian artists have chosen a section of the poem “He is No Other” by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish to be the focus of dozens of paintings in which they participated in their exhibition “Take my hand, impossible”.
The exhibition, which opened yesterday evening at the Zawya Gallery Gallery in Al-Bireh, is the result of a year-long debate between a group of artists who received art classes as children at the Young Artists Forum, which has now become the Art Forum. Visual.
"Most of the artists and artists participating in the exhibition had studied at the Young Artists Forum and then completed their education in universities, some of them chose architecture and design, and some of them chose plastic arts and filmmaking," said Sameh Abboushi, chairman of the board of directors.
"Today these people look out of the window of hope that we have opened and they are presenting their work, perhaps for the first time," he said at the opening ceremony.
The paintings on display reflect the young artists' vision of reality with different looks, some of whom presented it as it is, and some of them chose to rebel against it.
For his part, the curator of the exhibition, the Czech artist Khaled Hourani that «what you see today from the art is the result of a collective effort on the idea, although each artist has his own paintings».
“After an in-depth discussion about the idea of the exhibition, we found what we lost in a poem by Mahmoud Darwish (he is no one else). All the concepts put forward were the details that came to sing. ''
And from the poem Darwish: «said besieged the reality I can not read it .. I said write down your memories of a star after a villain lagging .. Ask your imagination: Did he know that your way this long?
He said: But I am not good at writing, my friend! .. I asked: lied to us then? .. He replied: the dream to guide dreamers as revelation .. Then sigh: Take my hand, you impossible! .. And missed as myths wish ». Dorich concludes his poem «did not win to die, did not break to live .. Take our hands together, you impossible».
Hourani pointed out that the aim of the exhibition is to «develop together one huge plate composed of various paintings». He continued «We wanted to discover the potential of each of us, and take the art seriously needed, and to participate and learn and produce through this experience what is worthy of the show».
Lara Salous, an architect, worked to present paintings in the exhibition, which will last until September 3, entitled "Do I See You?" Hebron. In one of her paintings, Lara invokes the Palestinian boy Fares Odeh, whose image is widely known standing in front of an Israeli tank carrying a stone that appears in the painting to be larger than the tank.
The camp is brightly colored
Alaa Al Baba, a graduate of the International Academy of Arts, has chosen to participate in the exhibition with paintings that provide architectural drawings of the camp that can be seen by those who see it, but in bright colors that do not reflect the life of misery.
"With these paintings centered around the camp's architectural form, I try to ask him in such a way that questions about this densely populated geographic area and changing political discourse," he said as he stood next to his paintings. "I use colors critically. As you can see, they are bright colors, but the camp is not."