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Takatuf: from Salish Seas to Palestine

Presented in partnership with Centre A, The Vancouver Black Library, and The Burnaby Art Gallery, this group exhibition features the work of 22 emerging artists from the West Bank.

After nineteen months of one of the most brutal genocides of contemporary history, through the use of the Western weaponry and with the most death faced against the people of Gaza, the question still remains: what is the capacity for art to express these atrocities, from the heart of the atrocities themselves? 

All the works of Takātuf: from Salish Seas to Palestine depict the Palestinian experience with a Palestinian brush. Takātuf brings artworks across colonial borders from the besieged West Bank to the unsurrendered, occupied territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-waututh Coast Salish peoples, to express in the heart of Western empire, the united Palestinian body. Takātuf contemplates the role of art in shaping narratives drawn from lived experiences, moving from art as merely a passive reflection, towards a vital force of change.

Takatuf, meaning shoulder-to-shoulder, offers work that is brimming with emotions and feelings that manifest through a diversity of artistic media including weaving, painting, photography, and sculpture, all represented in print.

 

IMPORTANT DATES: 

August 2, 6 PM (Opening Reception at LG Sun Wah Centre

August 3 -5; 12 – 6 PM (Exhibition Open at LG Sun Wah Centre) 

August 7 – 23; 12 – 6 PM (Exhibition Open at Centre A) 

 

Artists:

Ahmad Yaseen                 Aseel Abu Ramileh

Amr Salama                                    Shatha Safi

Mariam Al Afandi                  Dima Abu Al-Hajj

Sara Abu Madi                               Monir Mtoor

Alaa Reno                                     Mutaz Hajeer

Monther Jawabreh                  Rani Al-Shurbati

Hamada Madah                           Sarah Yaseen

Shadi Al-Hareem                         Bashar Khalaf

Walaa Joubran                               Samia Masri

Mahmoud Hamed                  Katherine Mattar

Mona Khalil

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