FAZAL SHEIKH @ Pace/MacGill Gallery

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FAZAL SHEIKH @ Pace/MacGill Gallery

April 9th, 2016 by fstop

FAZAL SHEIKH INDEPENDENCE | NAKBA
April 21 – June 30, 2016

Opening reception: Thursday, April 21, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Since his first visit to Israel and the West Bank at the invitation of Frédéric Brenner for the This Place initiative in late 2010, Sheikh has addressed the legacies of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 in a series of photographic projects, collectively called The Erasure Trilogy, which seek to render visible the enduring effects of this pivotal historical event. Independence | Nakba is the trilogy’s ultimate body of work, presenting 65 diptychs – one for each year between 1948 and 2013 – that juxtapose black-and-white portraits of individuals of gradually increasing age from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The visual dichotomy of the portraits speaks to the politics of separation inextricably tied to the Arab-Israeli War, which resulted in the establishment of the State of Israel, the reconfiguration of the region’s territorial borders, and the displacement of an estimated 700,000 Palestinians. Celebrated annually as Independence Day by Israelis, the event is commemorated by Palestinians as the Nakba or day of catastrophe.

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