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“the thousand and one nights” at New York City’s Postmasters Gallery


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Shadi Habib Allah and curator Mary Evangelista with Allah’s “On-going Tale.” (Staff photos J. Adas)

Shadi Habib Allah and curator Mary Evangelista with Allah’s “On-going Tale.” (Staff photos J. Adas)


A photograph of a man supporting the arch of a partially demolished house on his bent head; a video of a goldfish swimming over an aerial photograph of a region in the West Bank; photographs of the interiors of shops in Gaza, in each of which one’s eye is drawn to the prominently displayed portrait of the shop’s founder—these suggest the imagination and variety of the works of six leading contemporary artists from Palestine featured in the exhibition at the Postmasters Gallery in New York entitled “the thousand and one nights.”

Mary Evangelista, a writer and art critic who curated the show with Michael Connor, spent two years traveling through Palestine to meet artists and review their work. All six artists selected have exhibited their works internationally, and every piece Evangelista chose for the exhibition is challenging and thought-provoking. The demolished house in the first photo is in the village of Kufer Bir’im, whose residents Israel expelled in 1948. It belonged to the grandfather of the photographer, Hanna Farah. Shuruq Harb, who created the goldfish video, was born in Ramallah and studied in London and New York. Taysir Batnij­ ji is from Gaza, where he photographed the “father figures,” and now works in Paris.

In “Jericho First,” a wry critique of the Oslo “peace process,” Sharif Waked takes as his starting point a detail depicting a lion attacking a gazelle from an 8th century mosaic floor in Hisham’s Palace, which was excavated in Jericho. He renders the entwined animals in a monochromatic acrylic, then gradually, reading from right to left and top to bottom, transforms the image into a featureless abstraction. The Guggenheim Museum in New York recently acquired another of Waked’s works.

Jerusalem-born Shadi Habib Allah spent a year creating the images in an animation entitled “On-going Tale” (2006). The endless video loop depicts a wolf-like creature threatening humans who, in spite of their mutual distrust, celebrate their discovery of fire and create a weapon to turn the tables on the beast, then lose their weapon to a meteor strike and are again vulnerable. Jumana Manna’s “Familiar” is a photograph of the artist and her mother seated on a bed in identical postures. This is paired with a video of the mother nursing her adult daughter, a concept that is both disturbing and comforting. Manna now lives and works in Oslo, where she finds it a relief not to have to explain, justify, and defend being Palestinian.

Images from the exhibition may be viewed at <artpalestine.org/images>.

 

Jane Adas is a free-lance writer based in the New York City metropolitan area.

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