Until 16 January, Casa Árabe in Madrid is hosting the exhibition Jiwar, creative neighbourhoods in the city, curated by Mireia Estrada, which brings together a selection of works resulting from eight years of artistic residencies with creators from the Mediterranean area at the Jiwar space in Barcelona.
The exhibition presents works by Mehdi Harzallah, Yassine Gaidi, Amado Alfadni, Elif Gülem, Sadik Haddari, Farah Ben Mansour, Fátima Mortada, Haya Zaatry, Alaa Satir, Azza Abo Rebieh and Ro Caminal. The ideological pillar of the project is the very concept of jiwar, which in Arabic means neighbourhood. This is the driving force, the primary substance of a project that vindicates artistic creation as a tool for transformation and reflection on the city, and also as a new possibility of relating to it.
