Ala' Younis
video art and installations

The inherited Palestinian narrative is reinterpreted in Ala’ Younis work. She obsessively recollects historical and political failures of the Arab World, and attempts to look into the conditions where these failures become personal ones. Intimate and shared memories are interrogated and the very personal associations and meanings that we continually construct around and attach to objects are explored.

- Over Jerusalem
- Six Days
- 56 pictures for you
- The Rock
- Tunnels
- Nahr el Barid
- Shukran Faransa! (Thank You France!)
- Nefertiti
- Needles to Rockets

Born in Kuwait in 1974, Ala' Younis graduated with a B.Sc. in Architecture from the University of Jordan in 1997. She had her first solo exhibition at the French Cultural Center in Amman in 2004. Younis has displayed her work in Jordan and internationally in shows such as the Iran 3rdBiennale – "Art in the Contemporary Islamic World," Tehran (2005), the 12th Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2006), and PhotoCairo 4: The Long Shortcut, Cairo (2008) and Odense (2009). In 2005, she received the 2nd Prize for Non Egyptians at the 17th Youth Salon in Cairo and the 3rd Prize at the Annual Exhibition of the Jordanian Artists Association in Amman.

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