RULA HALAWANI : TRACES

11 Apr-11 May 2013

Overview

Coming from a news photography background, Rula’s investigatory nature led her into discussions with many Palestinian refugees about the villages they lived in before they fled their homes in 1948, and soon discovered that the interiors of their new dwellings kept alive the memories from their old life. Simple house-hold objects, gifts from friends or deceased family members, photographs and official documents make up this web of a life and time that had to be abandoned, and Rula displays the images in a carefully arranged and coordinated series of eight complete works.