#emily jacir

[neshamama]

emily jacir, from where we come from, 2001-2003

“if i could do anything for you, anywhere in palestine, what would it be?” this question was recently posed to palestinian exiles by palestinian-american artist emily jacir. taking advantage of her ability to move about relatively freely in israel with an american passport, jacir promised to realize the desires of those forbidden entry into their homeland. a series of texts, black lettering on white panels, describes the various requests. color photographs, presented by their side, document jacir’s actualization of them.  (sfmoma)

[garadinervi]

From: Emily Jacir (املي جاسر), letter to a friend, (2019, documentary, black-and-white and colour, sound, 43'), Manifesta 14 Prishtina, Prishtina-Priština, July 22 – October 30, 2022 [© Emily Jacir. Photo: © Manifesta 14 Prishtina / Majlinda Hoxha]

[christianaaahhh]

Emily Jacir

Memorial to 418 Palestinian Villages which were Destroyed, Depopulated and Occupied by Israel in 1948

in ΕΜΣΤ National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens

[maleqa11]

[jacobwren]

Emily Jacir. Untitled. Media: Books in a 36” doorway, installation dimensions variable.

[endofwinter]

Emily Jacir, Where We Come From (2001-2003)

Jacir's project began with the question posed to Palestinians living in forced exile all over the world — If I could do anything for you, anywhere in Palestine, what would it be? Over the course of two years, using her American passport, Jacir documented herself fulfilling people's requests to drink the water in their parents' village, water a tree in the village of Dayr Rafat (which was ethnically cleansed during the 1948 War), play soccer with a child in Haifa, among others.

[vsthepomegranate]

Detail from “Material for a Film” by Emily Jacir (2004)

Photo by Emily Jacir

[neshamama]

artist emily jacir in derry, ireland, 2009

[garadinervi]

Emily Jacir (املي جاسر), Untitled (SOLIDARIDAD), 2013 [Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Venezia. © Emily Jacir. Photo: © Renato Ghiazza]

[robthegoodfellow]

Idk if you guys follow art news but a university canceled a famous Palestinian artist's show citing "safety concerns." Her name is Samia Halaby and she does abstract paintings and sculptures.

Blatant attempt at censorship of Palestinian voices lol

[szczutek]

Installation and Exhibition

Installation is an ergonomically charged practice in which items are arranged to human anatomical convenience in order to pique the highest amount of interest in an audience while still maintaining commercial standards of aesthetics so as not to repulse. Like the task of building an office chair the way a body of works is arranged or what it displays must be innovative enough to gain intrigue, appealing enough to get looks and comfortable enough to sell. We were tasked with exhibiting five works reflecting on the Israel-Palestinian conflict in a way that may effectively communicate its meaning. Taking works of various Palestinian war photographers such as Peter van Agtmael, Fatima Sbhair and images of Emily Jacir’s tent installation embroidered with the names of 419 villages decimated in the Nakba; arranging them at approximate eye level 150cm from the floor in a sequence: Nakba, black ash covered sink (hospital use or other), Gaza in flames, faces from the Jewish Museum, three orphaned siblings navigating a barren street. The narrative is expressed in the contrast of themes and colours. The task brought many interpretations to light – most curiously a coffin arrangement of the images. It brought into discussion the severity of the conflict and how particularly photography, is not expression in these conditions but a form of survival. Many photographers and journalists the likes of Motaz Azaiza use images as language to reach out internationally.

[maleqa11]

Emily Jacir, Memorial to 418 Palestinian Villages Which Were Destroyed, Depopulated, and Occupied by Israel in 1948, 2001, refugee tent, embroidery thread, record book, Collection National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.

[sataniccapitalist]

Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians

We speak with award-winning Palestinian American artist and filmmaker Emily Jacir, whose event in Berlin in October was canceled after Israel launched its ongoing assault on Gaza. Jacir decries a pattern of "harassment, baseless smear campaigns, canceling shows, canceling talks" conducted against Palestinian artists in Germany and around the world. "It's very much part of a coordinated movement," she says, connecting global censorship of diasporic Palestinian voices with the violent "targeted destruction of culture in Gaza," which she calls a "part of genocide."