“Memory Metamorphosis: An Exhibition on Palestinian Memory”—at NYU’s Kevorkian Center Thru Jan. 31
The Hagop Kevorkian Center will host “Memory Metamorphosis: An Exhibition on Palestinian Memory,” which explores Palestinian diasporic memory through art, through January 31.
New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center will host “Memory Metamorphosis: An Exhibition on Palestinian Memory,” which explores Palestinian diasporic memory through art, through January 31. Above, “Remembering the Future,” by Jacqueline Reem Salloum.
New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center will host “Memory Metamorphosis: An Exhibition on Palestinian Memory,” which explores Palestinian diasporic memory through art, through January 31.
Memories establish a connection between personal and collective past, heritage and history. Remembering can bring things together and help give shape to identity that has been fragmented by displacement and diasporic living. There are well over 6 million Palestinians living in diaspora. Most were displaced or expelled over the past 68 years by war and occupation.
“Memory Metamorphosis,” the outcome of a Fall 2016 workshop led by Jacqueline Reem Salloum and Suhel Nafar, Kevorkian’s Palestinian artists-in-residence, explores, executes, and preserves diasporic memory through various art forms, including painting, photography, music, video, and collage. Each piece in the exhibition is inspired by interviews conducted by Kevorkian graduate students with U.S.-based Palestinians about their memories of home.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, features artists from Gaza, Jerusalem, and New York, including: Mohammed Al Hawajri (mixed media artist, Gaza); Marguerite Dabaie (illustrator, New York); Rula Halawani (photographer, Jerusalem); Omnia Hegazy (musician, New York); Suhel Nafar (musician, filmmaker and motion graphics artist, New York); Dina Matar (painter, Gaza); and Jacqueline Reem Salloum (artist and filmmaker, New York). For more information, please click here: http://bit.ly/2iIFZyW.
