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The
Valley_3, 2008, 57.5x38 cm, B/W Gelatine silver prints
Why
did you leave the forest empty?
by Ahlam Shibli (Palestine)
Ahlam
Shibli presents her solo show, "Why did you leave the
forest empty?". The exhibition includes the two series,
Arab al-Sbaih (2007) and The Valley (2007-2008).
Arab al-Sbaih references the original name of Shibli's
home village in Palestine. The photographs were taken in several
locations within Jordan where three generations of Palestinians
refugees have been living since the 1948 Nakba. Shibli intimately
explores the daily experiences in the camps community while
searching for the meaning of "Home". The images
focus on Shibil's distant relatives, who were expelled to
Jordan after being forced to
flee their village in the Galilee. The images from the series
The Valley were taken in Shibli's village, Arab al-Shibli,
in Lower Galilee and its lands. The series explores the conditions
of building a house and the regulations imposed on the Palestinian
people by the Israeli State, Shibli records the situations
created by the ongoing violations of Palestinian land rights.
The Valley, 2008
series of 32 photographs
38x57.7 cm, 57.5x38 cm
B/W Gelatine silver prints
C-Lambda prints
Edition: 6 + AP
Courtesy of the artist
Arab al Sbaih, 2007
Series of 47 photographs
38x57.7 cm, 57.5x38 cm
B/W Gelatine silver prints
C-Lambda prints
Edition: 6 + AP
Courtesy of the artist
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Ahlam
Shibli was born in Palestine in 1970, she lives
and works there. Shibli has realized projects which
study the living conditions of the Palestinian population
under Israeli rule. Those project include: Unrecognized
(2000), Goter (2003), and Trackers (2005). Shibli has
worked on several projects that research the notions
of home and belonging including: Eastern LGBT (2006,
Muslim lesbian, gay, bi, transgender people in London),
Dependence (2007, immigrant care workers and their elderly
employers in Barcelona), and Dom Dziecka, The House
Starves When You Are Away (2008, children in orphanages
in Poland). Shibli's work
has been the subject of exhibitions at
international institutions including: Istanbul
Biennial (2005), São Paulo Biennial (2006), Documenta
12 (2007), Centre Pompidou (2008), MACBA Barcelona (2008),
Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2009). Several publications
have been devoted to her work including: Goter (2003),
Lost Time (2003) and, Trackers (2006).
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