BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:269@palestinecampaign.c6digital.dev DTSTART:20130412T000000Z DTEND:20130528T000000Z DTSTAMP:20130528T135223Z URL:https://palestinecampaign.c6digital.dev/events/dor-guez-40-days-exhibi tion/ SUMMARY:Dor Guez - 40 Days - Exhibition DESCRIPTION: \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n "\n "\n "\n "\n\n\n\n \;\n\ nhttp://www.mosaicrooms.org/dor-guez/\n \;\nDOR GUEZ\nThe Mosaic Rooms hosts the first UK solo show by artist Dor Guez. Guez’s family heritage is both Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian. His work focuses on de picting  the history and experiences of the Christian Palestinian minorit ies who have remained in Israel\, a dispersed community whose voices and e xperiences have been marginalized by the prevailing narratives of the regi on. Guez’s work addresses these disparities whilst exploring contemporar y art’s role in provoking questions about history\, nationality\, ethnic ity\, and personal identity.\n\nThe exhibition will include new and recent work\, including the European premiere of 40 DAYS\, a multi-channel vide o piece and photographic series about the destroyed gravesites in the Chri stian Palestinian cemetery in the city of Lod (previously known by its Ara bic name of Al-Lydd).\n\nThe images originate from Guez’s ongoing work\, begun in 2009\, to build the first Christian-Palestinian Archive\, the CP A\, a growing collection of archival documents about the Palestinian Chris tians who were expelled from\, and those who remained in\, the State of Is rael after the 1948 war. The archive’s starting point was Guez’s own f amily’s albums\, three generations of the Monayer family living as a “ minority within a minority” but today it includes thousands of other ima ges. Guez conveys these experiences using different photographic and video techniques\, from scanned archival images\, to what he calls “scanogram s”\, and video installations\, which are at once documentary\, testimoni al and experimental films.\n\nGuez’s practise explores how these archiva l and documentary media can be used to record and validate as well as refr ame and influence ideas of history\, culture\, and collective identity. Co mbining the often intimate nature of his material sources\, from photograp hs taken by his grandfather to family testimonies\, Guez’s work offers a udiences a uniquely poignant insight into the complexities of the Middle E ast today\, and wider discourses on the politics of place.\n\nThis exhibit ion launches Disappearing Cities\, the Mosaic Rooms’ ambitious cultural programme of exhibitions\, talks and screenings focused on the destructio n of Arab urban life in the post-colonial age.\n\nView the Dor Guez: 40 D AYS press release.\n\nArtist Talk\, Saturday 20th April 2013\, 12pm\n\nDor Guez will discuss his work with Achim Borchardt-Hume\, Head of Exhibiti ons at Tate Modern\, and former chief curator at the Whitechapel Gallery.\ n\n(Re)telling history: exploring the documenting and (re)telling of histo ry through the archive 6-20 April 2013 – We are inviting participants t o take part in a project with Guez to explore their own personal and famil y history through archival materials and photography.\n\n LOCATION:The Mosaic Rooms\, Tower House\, 226 Cromwell Road\, London\, SW5 0SW\, London \, United Kingdom GEO:51.49487980000001;-0.19456270000000586 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Tower House\, 226 Cromwell Road\, London\, SW5 0SW\, London \, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=The Mosaic Rooms:geo:51.49487980000001,-0.19456270000000586 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR