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All that is beautiful and painful
Farraj, Khaled http://mondoweiss.net/2023/06/all-that-is-beautiful-and-painful/
Publisher: Mondoweiss Date Written: 15/06/2023 Year Published: 2023 Resource Type: Article
Profile of artist Abdul Rahman Katanani who works with construction material of refugee camps
Abstract: But Katanani's art is not an identification with misery. It is a humble attempt to extract the camp from its context so that others can witness it, including those who cannot enter it, those who do not want to enter it, and those who fear it. His 2019 art exhibition in Beirut's Salah Barakat Gallery, for example, used mirrors to reflect the camp's alleys and its livelihood, and also the extent of the crime committed against the Palestinian people.
Yet he uses materials from the camp's environment to also show the camp's exceptional beauty, and therefore to take it out of its isolation. His work tells the world that a place exists where people had been living as refugees for over 75 years, reminding the world of the ongoing Nakba, and the atrocity committed against the Palestinian people.
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