Objects in Conflict:
Personal stories from the heart of the conflict. On the 20th of December the exhibition 'Objects in Conflict' will be opened in Amman, together with the work of: Alan Gignoux, Majed Shala, Mohammed Al Tajer. 20th of December, 1700 hours, Dar Al Anda, Jabal Al Weibdeh www.daralanda.com
This exhibition places the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a personal context. The sixteen ordinary objects on display each tell an extraordinary story. The individual objects are, piece by piece, symbolic of a personal experience. The objects are almost all intrinsically worthless.
It is their meaning that makes the invaluable to their owners. Old key, spectacles or sports shoe, they are all irreplaceable symbols because they represent an experience. They tell a story about a great loss or something dearly missed, a life lost or a house left behind. The sixteen stories, half of them Israeli and half of them Palestinian, together give an idea of what living in this conflict can mean.
In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict every day something 'newsy' happens and the eyes of the media are directed toward that fleeting reality. But there is another way to look at the conflict, one that might be much more relevant, but rarely makes the headlines. It is the conflict seen through the eyes of individual people with their individual story. This exhibit focusses on that perspective. Away from politics and newsflashes and back to human proportions. Those experiences are what the conflict is really about, because they reflect the consequences of the play around power, land and money.
The exhibition is accompagnied by a book that presents pictures of the objects and their stories, in four languages: English, Dutch, Arabic and Hebrew. |
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