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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

Poetry is one of the catalysts of Pam Skleton's artistic action research leading to her solo exhibition We Refuse to be Scapegoats at P21Gallery.

In advance of the in-person private view on 23 June 2021 at the gallery, we would recommend a deep reading analysis of Rashid Hussein’s poem Love and the Ghetto (1963) by Honaida Ghanim. It is from Ghanim's text WhenYaffa Met ( J)Yaffa about the intersections between the Holocaust and the Nakba. Download WhenYaffa Met ( J)Yaffa as part of the exhibition resources curated by Pam Skelton and Iliyana Nedkova here: https://www.pamskelton.org/when-yaffa-met-jyaffa/ Find out more about We Refuse to be Scapegoats here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

📸 Yaffa central bus station 1946, 2 year before the Nakba. ‘The empty land’ Palestine. Image via Abier AlKhateeb @abierkhatib #letscreate #HereForCulture #exhibition #WeRefuseToBeScapegoats #artist #pamskelton #curator #iliyananedkova #curatorialintern #mathildejourdan #supporter #johntalbot #britishart #videoart #artistmovingimage #contemporaryart #britishartist #palestine #nakba #holocaust #freepalestine #freeSheikhJarrah #freegaza #p21gallery #MiddleEast #london #peace #WarsawGhetto #MultidirectionalMemory #LouisMacNeice #TallWallsWallUs #PrayerBeforeBirth #poetryactivism #RashidHussein #HonaidaGhanim

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

We Refuse to be Scapegoats

We asked Pam Skelton what has inspired the title of her solo exhibition coming soon at P21 Gallery 24 June - 10 July 2021. In the artist's own words:

“During a demonstration in London in 2019, I heard the Palestinian youth activist Ahed Tamimi defiantly proclaim that she refused to be a victim, that she had reached the point of no longer being scared to speak out. Fear is the weapon that silences us. The fact is that we still live in an era of camps, detention centres and ghettos echoing what Louis McNeice declared in his 1944 anti-war poem Prayer Before Birth ‘tall walls wall us. These are only some of the powerful words and voices of activists and artists alike I have included in my new moving image works featured in We Refuse to be Scapegoats.” – Pam Skelton

Be the first to see We Refuse to be Scapegoats in person at the private view at the gallery on 23 June 2021 18:00-20:00. Free and open all but advance registration is essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/private-view-we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats-tickets-157969508051

Find out more about the exhibition here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

📸 Screenshot from Tall Walls Wall Us (2021) by Pam Skelton

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