JAYCE SALLOUM
Works on Palestine: it’s more than about time..
Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (Introduction to the end of an argument)/ Speaking for oneself... Speaking for others…
Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (Introduction to the end of an argument)/ Speaking for oneself... Speaking for others… |
untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends..
untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends.. |
untitled part 3a: occupied territories
untitled part 3a: occupied territories |
re-engagements
re-engagements
16” x 20” Ektacolor photographs, 1988 (1991)
Original video footage for these images was shot during what is commonly referred to as the ‘first’ Intifada in Palestine-Israel (1987-1988) (but actually this was the 2nd Intifada (or the 10th+) as people never seem to remark about the 1936-1939 uprising where 2,000 Palestinians where killed when demanding their independence and the end of the policy of open-ended Jewish immigration and colonial settlement and British colonialism.)
Leaving the Occupied Territories at the end of the research and production trip, I also collected material in Beirut (during midst of their ‘civil’ war). Paralleling with a critique of how mainstream media constructs meaning.. overlaying text onto the photographed images (shot off the screen from the video footage)… attempting to decompress/deconstruct the media’s prevailing ideologies inherent in their work.. concerned with how these ideological contracts manifest themselves in popular culture/imagery and manipulate perceptions of ourselves and others..
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