(12 May 2025)
UAE GAZA ART
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 5 May 2025
1. Various of visitors at Jameel Arts Center, looking at art depicting scenes from the Gaza Strip
2. Graphite drawing, paintings in background
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nora Razian, head of exhibitions programme at the Jameel Arts Center:
"The exhibition, ‘Eltiqa, How to Work Together,’ brings together over 20 years of artworks by the collective Eltiqa, who are one of the longest running art collectives from Gaza, working for over 20 year and they’re still working today. So the exhibition has over 150 artworks ranging from painting, works on paper, sketches and notebooks. It also includes a lot of archival material from the personal archives of the members of Eltiqa as well as material on the Eltiqa Gallery, which is a gallery and art space they ran in Gaza City for the last many, many years up until recently."
4. Visitors at exhibition
5. Close of Map
6. Visitors looking at artwork
7. Graphite drawing
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nora Razian, head of exhibitions programme at the Jameel Arts Center:
"The artists in Eltiqa always say their work is not political, but necessarily they reflect life in Gaza and what it means to work and live there. What’s really amazing is that works in this exhibition span from the early 2000s all the way to the end of 2024. So you can see that the impulse to create and produce art keeps going, and it’s an important factor that enables artists not only to survive on the ground, but tell their stories and communicate with the wider world about what’s happening."
9. Various of visitors at exhibition
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nora Razian, head of exhibitions programme at the Jameel Arts Center:
"Many of our visitors are engaging with the work of Eltiqa for the first time. Many of these works haven’t been shown in over 20 years. So it’s a process of discovery for a lot of our audiences. As I said, there’s a lot of archival material and historical research. So they’re also really learning about what it means to be an artist in a place like Gaza, how difficult it might have been to even get basics such as art materials and produce work. But also, about support structures within the arts community that enable the thriving cultural scene there as well."
11. Visitor looking at paintings
12. Artwork on display
STORYLINE:
More than 150 artworks depicting life in Gaza over the past two decades are currently on display at an art gallery in Dubai.
The art on display at the Jameel Arts Center shows daily life in the enclave from 2000 to 2024, spanning a period of change in the Palestinian territory.
The exhibition highlights life before the blockade on Gaza went into effect in 2007, continuing after the destructive Israel-Hamas war that started in 2023.
The show called, "Eltiqa: How to Work Together," opened in February and continues until July 20.
It shows everything from emotional scenes of everyday joys shared by Palestinian families in Gaza to warplanes, missiles, bombs and the destruction caused by the ongoing Israeli military campaign.
"You can see that the impulse to create and produce art keeps going, and it’s an important factor that enables artists not only to survive on the ground, but tell their stories," said Nora Razian, head of exhibitions programme at the Jameel Arts Center.
The artwork on display includes material from Eltiqa Gallery, an art space that operated in Gaza until it was destroyed during the current war.
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