Nida Sinnokrot: Caravans
A critical look at indebtedness and impoverishment in the West Bank. Artist's statement, and photos of his show at Darat al Funun, Amman, 27 May - 16 Oct. 2014.
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Corrugated goatskins
120 x 220 cm
In the background:
Corrugated Landscape no. 01, 2013-14
Oil on canvas
60 x 40 cm
"We should transform the Bedouin into an urban proletariat - in industry, services, construction, and agriculture. 88% of the Israeli population are not farmers, let the Bedouin be like them. Indeed, this will be a radical move which means that the Bedouin would not live on his land with his herds, but would become an urban person who comes home in the afternoon and puts his slippers on. His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public. They will go to school, their hair combed and parted. This will be a revolution, but it can be achieved in two generations. Without coercion but with governmental direction ... this phenomenon of the Bedouins will disappear."
Moshe Dajan, 1963, during his time as Minister of Agriculture of Israel (1959 - 1964). Before he was IDF Chief, then Minister of Defence and of Foreign Affairs.
Darat al Funun, Blue House.
© Photo: Nida Sinnokrot
A critical look at indebtedness and impoverishment in the West Bank. Artist's statement, and photos of his show at Darat al Funun, Amman, 27 May - 16 Oct. 2014.