Ahlam Shibli

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Ahlam Shibli ( Arabic أحلام شبلي, DMG Aḥlām Šiblī ; * 1970 ) is a Palestinian photographer whose works have been exhibited internationally, including at documenta . Shibli's pictures and series have a documentary approach that captures the “suffering and ongoing discrimination of the Palestinians in their homeland”.

Life

Ahlam Shibli belongs to the Bedouin ethnic group and grew up in the village of Arab al Shibli in Galilee . In 1993 Shibli graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a bachelor's degree in art and archeology . 1996 followed a Bachelor in Social Work at the University of Haifa . In the same year she took the first steps to show her photographs in front of an audience and in 1997 graduated from the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education with a diploma in photography . In 1999, Shibli's first participation in an exhibition took place in the official framework of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv . Shibli completed a Masters degree in film and television in Tel Aviv, which she graduated with an MFA in 2004 . Shibli lives and works in Haifa .

The photographer works in black and white as well as in color . Her photos mostly show buildings and structures from a frontal view, while rooms are shown from a central perspective. This creates a distance between the photographer and the subject, the photographer - and in her place the viewer - become “outsiders”. If people can be seen in Shibli's pictures, they are seldom the focus of the action, they are not portrayed . Instead, these people are in action, which gives the photographs a reportage-like character. Despite these common stylistic features, Shibli's works are linked more through their content than through a photographic “signature style”. Her better-known and much-shown works Wadi Saleib in Nine Volumes (1996–1998), Unrecognised (1999–2000), Goter (2002–2003) and Trackers (2005) are series of photographs on subjects of the Palestinian present and history, which she often spans years prepared.

The title of the work Goter is a word from the idiom of the Bedouins in the homeland of Ahlam Shibli and is used there as an invitation to go to a place. Allegedly it comes from the English Go there! and passed into the local dialect during the British Mandate . Thus the title expresses both external determination and appropriation. Shibli shot the series Goter between October 2002 and February 2003 in the region around Beer Sheva in the Negev desert . The pictures show landscapes with individual buildings and settlements, also cemeteries and dilapidated buildings. People are rarely shown, mostly children. The subtext of the photographs is the absence of the Bedouins who used to live here. After Israel brought the Negev under control, the Israeli state attempted to seduce the semi-nomadic Bedouins living here or to force them into the cities as cheap labor. Bedouins have settled in other places without these settlements being officially recognized. Shibli explores this special topic in her work Unrecognized .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2003: DisORIENTation - contemporary Arab art from the Middle East , House of World Cultures in Berlin. Shibli took part in Nine Volumes with the series Unrecognized and Wadi Saleib .
  • 2004: Non-Sect / Radical: Contemporary Photography III , Yokohama Museum of Art . The series Goter and Self-Portrait were shown .
  • 2004: Stay or go / Ostati ili otici , Kunstpavillon Zagreb and Camera Austria in Graz. The series Goter was shown .
  • 2005: Dreaming Art Dreaming Reality , Tel Aviv Museum of Art . The series Catastrophe: Refuge in Frost was shown .
  • 2006: The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society , BIACS 2 , Seville.
  • 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel. Was shown Arab al-Sbaih and a selection of works from goter .
  • 2008: Les inquiets , Center Pompidou , Paris. The series The Valley was shown .
  • 2008: Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia , MACBA , Barcelona and in the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. The Dependence series was shown .
  • 2017: documenta 14 , Athens ( Occupation , April 8 - July 16, 2017) and Kassel ( Heimat , June 10 - September 17, 2017)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jack Persekian: DisORIENTation - a diary , Sunday, September 8th, '02 .
  2. a b c Ulrich Loock: Ahlam Shibli: Resistance to Oppression . In: “Camera Austria”, No. 93, March 2006, pp. 41–52.
  3. a b c CV Ahlam Shibli ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ArtNet. (Retrieved February 17, 2010.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horcynusorca.it
  4. ^ Tal Ben Zvi (ed.): New Middle-East: Eleven Exhibitions, 1998-1999, at Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tel Aviv . Hagar Association, Tel Aviv 1999. (exhibition catalog)
  5. a b Ulrich Loock: Goter . In: “Ahlam Shibli, Lost Time”. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2003.
  6. ^ Ahlam Shibli: Lost Time , Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, September 24th to November 9th, 2003. Catalog published by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2003, ISBN 0-907594-94-8 .
  7. Ahlam Shibli - Trackers from January 22nd to March 19th, 2006 in the Kunsthalle Basel. Catalog published by Walther König, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-86560-169-8 . (accessed on July 7, 2017.)
  8. Ahlam Shibli in the DCA, February 3 to April 1, 2007. Isla Leaver-Yap: Everyday war . In: The List, No. 569, February 12, 2007. (accessed January 4, 2010.)
  9. Trackers / The Valley in Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels, from September 24 to November 2, 2008. (accessed on May 3, 2015.)
  10. Wydomowienie / Unhoming in the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, March 20 to May 4, 2009. (English, accessed on July 7, 2017.)
  11. DisORIENTation , House of World Cultures, Berlin, from March 20 to May 11, 2003. Catalog published by House of World Cultures, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-9808851-2-7 .
  12. Catalog published by Yokohama Museum of Art, 2004.
  13. Stay or go / Ostati ili otici , Camera Austria, Graz, from October 9 to November 28, 2004. Catalog published by Hrvatski Fotosavez, Zagreb 2004, ISBN 953-98197-7-6 .
  14. ^ Catalog edited by Mordechai Omer and Ellen Ginton: Dreaming art, dreaming reality: Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize - the first decade . Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2005.
  15. The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society , 2nd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, October 26, 2006 to January 15, 2007. Catalog edited by Okwui Enwezor , Fundación BIACS, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 84-934879-3-7 .
  16. ^ Documenta 12 ( Memento of July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (at Wayback Machine ), Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007.
  17. Les inquiets , Center Georges Pompidou in Paris from February 13 to May 19, 2008. Catalog published by Éditions du Center Pompidou, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-84426-350-X .
  18. Universal Archive , Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), from October 23, 2008 to January 6, 2009. Curated by Jorge Ribalta. Catalog published by MACBA, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 978-84-89771-70-3 .
  19. documenta 14 , accessed on July 7, 2017