Opening hours: Thursday to Sunday, noon to 6PM. Free admission. Presented by Vines Art Society and SAW, in conjunction with the 11th Annual Vines Art Festival. The exhibition tour is organized by SAW and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts’ Arts Across Canada program. Images: Courtesy of Rehab Nazzal and SAW. All rights reserved.
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Conversation with Rehab Nazzal (Bethlehem) and Jayce Salloum (Vancouver), facilitated by Stefan St-Laurent (Ottawa) at 6:30PM
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Catering provided by Tamam Fine Palestinian Cuisine
Partners: Access Gallery, Apartheid Free Communities, Burnaby Art Gallery, Centre A, From the River to the Sea Collective, Vancouver Black Library, CCMS (Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies), UNIT/PITT
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To drive in Palestine is to pass through a landscape cut by walls, watchtowers, gates, and fences—where every turn, every stretch of road, is marked by a regime of control. For over a decade, artist Rehab Nazzal documented the violent architecture of Israeli apartheid through collecting photographs, video, and sound.
السياقة بفلسطين تعني المرور عبر منظرا طبيعيا يخترقه جدران ، أبراج مراقبة، بوابات، وأسوار- و كل منعطف، كل جزء من الطريق، معلّم بنظام تحكّم وسيطرة. لأكثر من عقد من الزمان، دوّنت الفنانة رحاب نزّال الهندسة العنيفة لنظام الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي عن طريق جمع صور، فيديوهات، وصوت.
Driving in Palestine brings together photographs taken from moving vehicles between 2010 and 2020. What emerges is a cartography of restriction and erasure: a land fractured into zones, a people fragmented by permits, color-coded license, military checkpoints, military watchtowers, and segregated streets. The view from the car window reveals the ordinary brutality of occupation—the slow strangulation of movement, land, and life.
“التحرك في فلسطين" يعرض صورا تم أخذها بين عامي 2010-2020. والناتج هو رسم خرائطي لتقييد الشعب الفلسطيني ومحوه: ارض ممزّقة لمناطق عدة، شعب مجزّء بتصاريح، رُخَص مُتعددة الألوان، حواجز عسكرية، وشوارع فصل عنصري. المشهد من نافذة السيارة يكشف وحشية الاحتلال الاعتيادية- الخنق البطيء للحركة، الأرض، والحياة.
