“Salons: Collections of Memory and Loss” is open at the Qattan Foundation in Ramallah from May 28 until August 23, 2022. The exhibition brings together the work of 9 artists: Amer Abu Matar, Essa Grayeb, Lara Salous, Mahdi Baraghithi, Ola Zaitoun, Rana Battrawi, Rana Nazzal, Reem Masri, and Sham Abusaleh.

“Home, as a notion for Palestinians, is intertwined with many metaphors and meanings, and is both a place of rootedness and displacement. Rootedness commonly refers to the land—occupied homeland—and displacement from it in reference to dispossessed Palestinians in the diaspora and refugee camps. Land is a major component of the imagination of home. Home is, therefore, the place where one tills the land, waters a vine tree and tastes the honey-sweet fig on summer mornings. Home is a reflection of its dwellers and their tangible and intangible cultural heritage—whether in the broad language of landscape, in the urban fabric of cities and villages or in the material culture of collected objects in their salons.”

More here: http://qattanfoundation.org/en/qattan-16