Facing Gaza Exhibition Events

Schedule

Sat Oct 02 2021 at 02:00 pm

Location

Museum of the Palestinian People | Washington D.C., DC

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Join us for the opening events for the week-long pop-up exhibition about Gaza.
2 p.m. – Opening remarks by Executive Director Bshara Nassar, Guest Curator Ahmed Mansour, Malak and family, and Artist Robert Hardwick Weston
2:30 p.m. – Performance by the Foty Fusion band
5 p.m.-7 p.m. – Enjoy the open buffet of Gazan food
7-9 p.m. – Screenings of Angel of Gaza film
"Facing Gaza" is a series of works that grasps, captures, and relates the devastation inflicted on Gaza by Israel during the 2014 War in the broader social context of Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine. Each photo-montage in the series engages one specific day in the 50-day war, bringing into juxtaposition two images posted to Facebook on that day – an image posted by a Facebook user in Gaza alongside an image posted that same day by a Facebook user in Israel. Each image is stamped with the respective name of the Facebook user, their hometown, and the date the image was posted, then cut and glued into a single composite image. Bringing circumstantially remote images into close imaginary contact, the compositions generate visible tensions and contradictions that present in stark relief two vastly different wartime realities.
This exhibition is curated by Ahmed Mansour and features works of art by Robert Hardwick Weston. To learn more about this exhibition and event, visit our website: https://mpp-dc.org/current-and-future-exhibitions-facing-gaza/
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Where is it happening?

Museum of the Palestinian People, 1900 18th St. NW, Washington D.C., DC 20009, United States

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Museum of the Palestinian People

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