Maktaba Moment: The Gazan Bride
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- By Maktaba Bookstore
The Bride of Gaza by artist Eman Haram found a home at Maktaba from June 18 to June 30th.
Artist Eman Haram writes: "In my work which contemplates the bruised motherland as a poetic condition with infinite and inexhaustible geography, the female figure is often synonymous with both the land and its people. Bereaved, grief-stricken, indomitable, The Gazan Bride meditates the unspeakable suffering of Gazans and all of Palestine. I wish for her bereft gaze to lodge itself indelibly in the viewers soul until the land and its people are emancipated from this harrowing siege.”
Eman Haram is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist, born in Damascus to Palestinian parents from Haifa. Haram grew up in Beirut and completed her studies in Architecture and Art History in the U.S before settling in Canada. Her work reflects on the dystopic realities settler colonialism inflicts on indigenous people and their ancestral lands, through contemplative use of images. Her work has been presented in solo and group events notably at Darling Foundry; Oboro New Media Lab - Montreal; Dar Al Kalima - Palestine; Darat Al Funun; Amman Image Festival; Casa Arabe - Madrid; and Contemporary Istanbul among others. She currently lives between Montreal and Amman.
