"Terror: A Collaboration Between a Palestinian and an Israeli Artist"
2004-04-17 until 2004-06-12
Slought Foundation
Philadelphia, PA, USA United States of America

Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents „TERROR: A Collaboration between a Palestinian and an Israeli Artist," an exhibition from April 17-June 12, 2004. Aissa Deebi and Yuval Shaul provide a new dialectic in order to overcome terror and deadly confrontation. Their artistic collaboration is their contribution to a cultural dialogue that seems to have diminished. It features seven composite photographs (270 x 140 cm each) addressing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, composed by digital editing from 28 photographic portraits of terror and shooting victims, both Jewish and Arab.

The work in this exhibition premiered at Julie M. Gallery in Tel Aviv and the Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art and was recently on view in Graz, Austria. Brochure with essay by curator Osvaldo Romberg available upon request.

"We were not searching for a political solution... rather, I faced the dilemma of my Palestinian patriotism: who would occupy the role of the victim? The act of producing Family, a collaborative work, made us face the complexity of the human values 'blurred' in this conflict." --Aissa Deebi in conversation with Yuval Shaul

IMAGE
From "The Family."
Digital Print, 2001

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