Until 11 February 2024, Casa Árabe is showing the exhibition Tadafuq / Fluir: Palestinian artists in movement, which presents the work of 15 contemporary Palestinian artists from Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem, at its venues in Madrid and Cordoba. This evening at 8 p.m. the inauguration will take place at the Madrid headquarters.
A new generation of Palestinian artists has emerged. Immersed in a complex context, these fifteen contemporary talents manifest in their gaze and expression a horizontality that builds empathetic bridges. The narrative capacity and the strength of the stories they offer the viewer through their creations are the common thread of the exhibition. Tadafuq is to flow, despite borders and barriers; it is to rise up through an ingenious, collective and multidisciplinary narrative.
The exhibition is composed of works by 15 contemporary Palestinian artists. Five artists representing each region of Palestine where the different scenes of contemporary creators are concentrated: Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. The artists have been selected, from more than 100 applications, through a contemporary art initiative implemented in Palestine within the prestigious European programme “European Spaces of Culture”, with three local partners: Alhoash (Jerusalem), Sakakini (Ramallah) and GUCC (Gaza), together with three international partners: Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem/AECID, French Institute in Palestine and British Council in the Occupied Territories and in collaboration with the EU Delegation in Palestine. Since 2020, this programme is led annually by Nicolás Combarro, curator of the exhibition, as a development of an online programme of contemporary art in the region, organised by AECID and the Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem.
