Future Movements
About the exhibition on Jerusalem, included in the CityStates' focus of this year’s Liverpool Biennale.
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Vanishing Point I. 2008-10
Giclée print on archival paper
100 x 250 cm
(Detail)
Alexandra Handal’s Vanishing Point I is a mind map of the divided neighbourhood of Al-Musarah, based on her recollections of an encounter with a local Palestinian refugee, several years ago. Both works (Handal’s and Bouchra Khalili’s) function as probing inquiries of the epistemological limitations of the map in relation to the Palestinian predicament, and point at the representational gap between the lived experience and the normativity of the document. Handal’s diagram, a mixture of lived and imagined memories, borrowing from diverse visual genres and semantic fields (including advertising and storytelling) embodies an attempt to permanently fix a vanishing world, as much as it is an illustration of her memory apparatus and the meanders of her psyche. The representational disjunctions in Vanishing Point I blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, contemplate the erosion of memory and of narrative possibilities…
© Image: Alexandra Handal
About the exhibition on Jerusalem, included in the CityStates' focus of this year’s Liverpool Biennale.