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Busan Biennale 2014

Outline Theme Exhibition Information Team Artists & Artworks
Trackers
Ahlam Shibli


Trackers


THE PHOTOGRAPHIC work of Ahlam Shibli is focused at the lives of his surroundings. He captures the situations of Palestinian residents under Israeli occupation. However, it is not through feeling compassion for or taking pity upon their poor lives, but rather objective distance that he attains a remarkable sense of symbolism in contemporaneous lives. The eighty-seven photographs in the series Trackers, shown at the Biennale, deal with the Palestinian who are of Bedouin descent, but are currently on duty or those who have served in the lsraeli army. The angles of camera and the gazes of the subjects invariably imply the extreme difficulty for us to imagine what it is like to survive as a minority or the price one has to pay in order to be treated differently.
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