Exhibit Duration: April 17 - June 12, 2004 Location: Slought Foundation Reception: Saturday, April 17, 2004
Exhibition Openings Series
| Curated by
Osvaldo Romberg
Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents “TERROR: A Collaboration between a Palestinian and an Israeli Artist," an exhibition from April 17-June 12, 2004.
Aissa Deebi and Yuval Shaul provide a new dialectic in order to
overcome terror and deadly confrontation. Their artistic collaboration is their contribution to a cultural dialogue that seems to have diminished. This exhibition,
curated by Osvaldo Romberg, opens at Slought Foundation on Saturday, April 17, 2004 from 6:30-8:30pm. It features seven composite photographs (270 x 140 cm each) addressing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, composed by digital editing from 28 photographic portraits of terror and shooting victims, both Jewish and Arab. The work in this exhibition premiered at Julie M. Gallery in Tel Aviv, was subsequently exhibited at the University of Haifa (curated by Avishay Ayal) and recently traveled to Graz, Austria.
"We were not searching for a political solution... rather, I faced the
dilemma of my Palestinian patriotism: who would occupy the role of the victim? The act of producing Family, a collaborative work, made us face the complexity of the human values 'blurred' in this conflict."
--Aissa Deebi in conversation with Yuval Shaul
"The practice of computerized "facial hybridization" is well known… it conveys the message that all human beings are equal. However, the knowledge that these people were the victims of acts of terror or were killed by soldiers sheds a new light on the joint portraits. In view of the fact that the murder of civilians on national grounds is by now received in our society with near-indifference, these collective death masks become silent memorials for our moral state. These works undermine the 'politics of identity', and are intended to expose the banality of ethnocentric thought and the limitations inherent in the national perception as constituting human identity." -- Avishay Ayal
28 dead people, Grandpa, Grandma, Daddy, Mummy, Son, Daughter and Baby:
Aissa Deebi is a Palestinian artist born in Galilee, Israel (1969). He has been based in the U.K. and the U.S. for the past eight years, during which time he has worked in photography and video art. Deebi completed his MFA in theory and practice in 1998 at Liverpool University. He has exhibited his work in Israel and internationally including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art; the University of Catania, Italy; and the Inner Mongolia Museum of Fine Arts, China, Deebi is Director of Visual Arts at ArteEast and an active curator working in New York, the Middle East, and Europe.
Yuval Shaul is an experimental artist whose work spans a variety of styles and materials. He was born in Israel in 1961, and he currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. Solo exhibitions include Bograshov Gallery, Artifact Gallery and Julie M. Gallery in Tel Aviv, Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod, Herzliya Museum of Art, and Buro Empty Gallery in Amsterdam. His work has been included in group shows at the Tel Aviv Museum ("Sharet Foundation scholarship recipients"; "Israeli Art Now"), at the Herzliya Museum of Art ("Young Artist Prize Exhibition"), and Robert Sandelson Gallery, London ("Israeli Contemporary"). He is represented by Julie M. Gallery and has work in the collection of Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Jerusalem Museum of Art.
To Cite this Page using MLA Style:
Aissa Deebi, et al. "TERROR." Slought Foundation Online Content.
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