Who
can sleep in Gaza?!
Art
exhibition by the Palestinian artist Laila Kassab
!من يستطيع النوم في غزة؟
The INCA Italian Advice Centre
124 Canonbury Road, London N1 2UT, nearest tube, Highbury & Islington
This weekend, Saturday 14th; Sunday 15th December, both from 10am - 10pm
124 Canonbury Road, London N1 2UT, nearest tube, Highbury & Islington
This weekend, Saturday 14th; Sunday 15th December, both from 10am - 10pm
Admission Free
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Exhibition facebook: www.facebook.com/events/
The
artist Laila Kassab created harmony, beauty, imagery and symbolism to
express the harsh reality in besieged Gaza. The vivid colours of her
paintings are in stark contrast to the brutal blockade imposed by
Israel. But her choice of colours are also symbolic. For Kassab blue
expresses loss, deep secrets, hidden feelings, weirdness and
dislocation.
The latest works Islington Friends of Yibna managed to get smuggled out of Gaza are characterised by visual metamorphosis and a flow of merging and evolving forms and structures often mixed with symbolist motifs.
Despite being locked in the tiny Gaza Strip and subjected to the savage Israeli bombardment, Laila's artwork conveys love, music, hope and motherhood, but the longing for being free of fear is an underlying thread. The tunnels which brought life saving food are intertwine with womanhood. Though Jerusalem is forbidden by the Israeli occupation it is often referred to both explicitly and implicitly. Hidden keys and keyholes symbolise the yearning to return to the homes from which Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed.
Here are 4 photos of Laila Kassab paintings, smuggled out of Gaza for this exhibition by Islington Friends of Yibna.
