Hazem Harb
Untitled #1 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0248
Hazem Harb
Untitled #3 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0249
Hazem Harb
Untitled #4 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0250
Hazem Harb
Untitled #5 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0251
Hazem Harb
Untitled #6 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0252
Hazem Harb
Untitled #7 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0253
Hazem Harb
Untitled #10 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0254
Hazem Harb
Untitled #11 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0255
Hazem Harb
Untitled #12 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0256
Hazem Harb
Untitled #14 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0257
Hazem Harb
Untitled #15 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0258
Hazem Harb
Untitled #16 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0259
Hazem Harb
Untitled #17 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0260
Hazem Harb
Untitled #20 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0261
Hazem Harb
Untitled #21 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0262
Hazem Harb
Untitled #22 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0263
Hazem Harb
Untitled #23 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0264
Hazem Harb
Untitled #24 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0265
Hazem Harb
Untitled #26 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0266
Hazem Harb
Untitled #27 from the Archaeology of Occupation series, 2015
Print Collage
30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
HAH0267
In the collage series Harb juxtaposes pre nakba (1948) photographs of Palestinian landscapes with concrete heavy masses in the horizon of some of the images. Among many things, Harb has been experimenting with the relationship between sculpture and painting; collage as a technique seems to be very fitting, not only in terms of formal experimentation, but as a reference from modernist works of art. Harb is referencing modernism in relation to architecture, the occupation of Palestine and the Bauhaus style that worked hand in hand with military occupation. The series emphasizes a history of colonialism, where the fraught concretions are levitating ominously above Palestinian coastal skies. Thus the collage is double fold: the photos show a landscape devoid of people representing a biblical landscape while the concrete cut outs preempt the arrival of colonial modernizing concrete onto the horizon of the cities. But how does one read it from the present, or from the future? Perhaps in reverse
ATHR will be presenting the works by Hazem Harb at Artissima 2015’s Present Future section from the 6th – 8th November, 2015.
Hazem Harb will be presenting his series, Archaeology of Occupation, a body of work that takes pre-nakba photographs (1948) of Palestenian landscapes and references modernism in relation to architecture.
“The series emphasizes a history of colonialism, where the fraught concretions are levitating ominously above Palestinian coastal skies. Thus the collage is double fold: the photos show a landscape devoid of people representing a biblical landscape while the concrete cut outs preempt the arrival of colonial modernizing concrete onto the horizon of the cities. But how does one read it from the present, or from the future? Perhaps in reverse?” explained Hazem Serafi, Co-Founder of ATHR, about the series.
Present Future is a section of Artissima devoted to upcoming talents selected by a board of young curators from around the world. Lara Khaldi, an independent curator working between Ramallah and Amsterdam who is serving on the Present Future section’s curator board, selected Hazem Harb to participate with his work, Archaeology of Occupation.
Artists chosen for this section will be competing in the Illy Present Future Prize, which offers the winner the exceptional opportunity of a show at Castello di Rivoli d’Arte Contemporanea, sponsored by illycaffè.
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