Presence and Impressions

Organisation: Selma Feriani Gallery

Time: 14 January 2010 10:30am - 06 March 2010 6:30pm

Place: Selma Feriani Gallery, 23 Maddox Street, London W1S 2QN

Selma Feriani Gallery Presents

PRESENCE AND IMPRESSIONS

Rula Halawani

Selma Feriani Gallery announces the opening of the solo exhibition ‘Presence and Impressions’ featuring new works by Rula Halawani.

Rula Halawani’s first solo exhibition in London, offers a compelling insight into the complex photographic world of the artist, and a moving insight into the transformation of the Palestinian landscape. Rula lives through the changes to the Palestinian lives and landscapes that she chronicles. Amidst a nation under occupation, her photography acts as a personal survival mechanism, a way of preserving Palestine and her own sense of identity. ‘Presence and Impressions’ is Rula’s latest series of photographs, continuing to document the daily reality of the ever-transforming lives of Palestinians in the face of Israeli occupation. Made up of 9 diptychs, the work from this new series features nine Palestinian villages depopulated during the 1948 Nakba. Viewed in pairs, Rula has chosen an image of the thriving settlements prior to the exodus of its inhabitants, and matched it with her own contemporary black and white photograph of the same location as it is found today.

14th January to 6th March 2010
Preview: Thursday, 14th January, 6-9pm. RSVP.
Panel Discussion: Friday 15th January 6.30-7.30 pm. RSVP.

Selma Feriani Gallery, 23 Maddox Street, London W1S 2QN
Open: Monday to Friday 10.30am-6.30pm; Saturday 11.30am-5.30pm

For further information and photographic material, please contact:
Nadia Carnovale on nadia@selmaferiani.com

Selma Feriani Gallery:
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