Artists:

Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abu Rahme, and Raouf Haj Yahia; Amer Shomali, Ihab Jadallah, Wadee Hanani, and Shadi Habib Allah

Description:

“Loop,” as part of al-Hoash’s long term research project on colonial societies and visual representation, the exhibition presents five art works scrutinizing colonial societies, in which seven artists addressed this topic.  The featured artists, Raouf Haj Yahia, Ruanne Abu Rahme and Basel Abbas, as a trio analyzed  [U.S. security coordinator Keith] Dayton's speech to critically examine the contemporary mechanisms by which colonial power and its sub-structures, the Palestinian security regime, attempt to produce a new reality on the ground, but also a new Palestinian subjectivity.  

Amer Shomali refers to the first intifada's act of resistance in Beit Sahour, the discarding and burning of Israeli IDs as a symbolic suicide to achieve symbolic temporal freedom and questions the forms of resistance and political discourse.

Ihab Jadallah looks at the history of Egyptian cinema compared to Hollywood cinema to examine the echoes of the cinematic language. Wadee Hanani examines the notion of conspiracy and the truth of our existence in relation to the colonizer. Shadi Habib Allah tests the relationship between the local and the foreigner – from conventional tourism in contrast to alternative or political tourism over history and in relation with colonialism.