“MEMORY METAMORPHOSIS: An Exhibition on Palestinian Memory now open through Jan. 31, 2017”
New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies will display “MEMORY METAMORPHOSIS”—the outcome of a Fall 2016 workshop led by Palestinian artists-in-residence Jacqueline Reem Salloum and Suhel Nafar. The gallery exhibition runs from Jan 4 2017 through Jan. 31, 2017.
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(including non-refugee diaspora Palestinians, the figure is between 9 and 11 million worldwide). Most were displaced or expelled over the past 68 years by war and occupation. When a people’s history, culture and existence are being altered or erased, holding onto their memories and passing them down can be seen as an act of resistance.
MEMORY METAMORPHOSIS explores, executes and preserves diasporic memory through various art forms (e.g. painting, photography, music, video, collage). Each piece in the exhibition is inspired by interviews conducted by Kevorkian MA students with U.S.-based Palestinians about their memories of home.
The gallery is located in the Kevorkian Center’s Ettinghausen Library located at 255 Sullivan Street, at the corner of Washington Square South.
Artists
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/Lyd)
Dina Matar (Painter, Gaza)
Jacqueline Reem Salloum (Artist and Filmmaker, New York)
Interviewees
Jalaa Abdelwahab
Suad Amiry
Rev. Khader N. El-Yateem
Isa Qasim
Anwar Mohammed Yousef
Sumaya Yousef
Curators
Miray Cakiroglu, MA NES ’18
Aristo Fatwan, MA NES ’17
Mone Makkawi, MA NES ’17
Yasmeen Mobayed, MA NES ’18
Fatima Mohie-Eldin, MA NES ’18
Loubna Mrie, MA NES ’18
Suhel Nafar, Kevo Artist in Residence, Fall 2016
Saba Naseem, MA NES ’18
Ada Petiwala, MA NES ’17
Greta Scharnweber, Associate Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU
Jacqueline Reem Salloum, Kevo Artist in Residence, Fall 2016
Layla Quran, MA, NES/Glojo ’17
Kasper van Laarhoven, MA NES/Glojo ’17
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12pm-8pm, and Mondays and Tuesdays by appointment.
Admission: Free. Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, M (W. 4th St) N, R (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place)
For more information, please call 212.998.8877 or email kevorkian.center@nyu.edu.
"Memory Metamorphosis" - An Exhibition on Palestinian Memory
