http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/18/wounds-of-the-heart-an-artist-and-her-nation/ Free Minds for a Free Palestine Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:10:11 +0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/18/wounds-of-the-heart-an-artist-and-her-nation/#comment-8049 Jesmi Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:41:16 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/18/wounds-of-the-heart-an-artist-and-her-nation/#comment-8049 The Palestinians strongly feel that they belong to the land, while the Israelis insist that the land belongs to them. Bishara’s artwork is deeply embedded in and informed by the Palestinian experiences of displacement, exile and occupation and the desire of Palestinian refugees to return to the lands they were displaced. The Palestinians strongly feel that they belong to the land, while the Israelis insist that the land belongs to them. Bishara’s artwork is deeply embedded in and informed by the Palestinian experiences of displacement, exile and occupation and the desire of Palestinian refugees to return to the lands they were displaced.

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/18/wounds-of-the-heart-an-artist-and-her-nation/#comment-8048 Jesmi Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:40:17 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/18/wounds-of-the-heart-an-artist-and-her-nation/#comment-8048 Her artwork functions simultaneously as an elegy to the Palestinian Nakba, an unmasking of the brutality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and a critique of the biased Western media’s depiction of the Palestinians’ struggle against their occupiers. The objects employed in her artwork perform as surrogates for the body and spirit of Palestine and its people. Her artwork functions simultaneously as an elegy to the Palestinian Nakba, an unmasking of the brutality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and a critique of the biased Western media’s depiction of the Palestinians’ struggle against their occupiers. The objects employed in her artwork perform as surrogates for the body and spirit of Palestine and its people.

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/18/wounds-of-the-heart-an-artist-and-her-nation/#comment-7935 Rana Bishara - Wounds of the Heart - Documentary » Artists Against Apartheid - Witness the True Emancipatory Struggle Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:53:07 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/18/wounds-of-the-heart-an-artist-and-her-nation/#comment-7935 [...] Born and raised in the village of Tarsheha in the Galilee, Rana Bishara is a Palestinian Visual Artist whose creative practice includes sculpture, installation work and performance art. Her artwork functions simultaneously as an elegy to the Palestinian Nakba (the Arabic term for The Great Disaster that began in 1948), an unmasking of the brutality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and a critique of the biased Western media’s depiction of the Palestinians’ struggle against their occupiers. The objects employed in her artwork perform as surrogates for the body and spirit of Palestine and its people. Her work, in both its physical and conceptual manifestations is an expression of the inseparable blending of the personal and political experiences that define the identity of every Palestinian. [read more...] [...] [...] Born and raised in the village of Tarsheha in the Galilee, Rana Bishara is a Palestinian Visual Artist whose creative practice includes sculpture, installation work and performance art. Her artwork functions simultaneously as an elegy to the Palestinian Nakba (the Arabic term for The Great Disaster that began in 1948), an unmasking of the brutality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and a critique of the biased Western media’s depiction of the Palestinians’ struggle against their occupiers. The objects employed in her artwork perform as surrogates for the body and spirit of Palestine and its people. Her work, in both its physical and conceptual manifestations is an expression of the inseparable blending of the personal and political experiences that define the identity of every Palestinian. [read more...] [...]

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