Tag: occupation
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sliman Mansour’s Prison, with footnotes
Prison (1982) depicts five men, their hands cuffed behind their back and their heads covered so they cannot see. They are huddled together, back to back, confined within the walls of a prison. Most likely Palestinian and although faceless, the men appear strong, youthful and resilient in their stance. Yet melancholy undertones run throughout, as the…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sliman Mansour’s crowd, with footnotes
Mansour is a committed Palestinian artist. Here he paints a compact crowd, seized with fear and hampered by the barbed wire of the occupation. Beyond the Palestinian question, this image has, thirty years after its execution, a more universal scope: we see the people confronted with conflicts and the migrations which are their consequence. More on…
Zaidan Gallery 