Shuruq Harb - In the Presence of Absence, 2024 - Spazio Ferdinand Stuflesser, Pontives

Shuruq Harb, In the Presence of Absence, 2024. Video 14’. Courtesy of the Artist. Commissioned by A.M. Qattan Foundation. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo
Shuruq Harb, In the Presence of Absence, 2024. Videostill. Courtesy of the Artist. Commissioned by A.M. Qattan Foundation.

Shuruq Harb ie n’artista te de plu disciplines, educadëura, regista y scritëura cun sënta a Ramallah. Te si video y nstalazions giapa l’artista si ispirazion dala cultura pop y digitela y se dà ju cun la manieres coche chedri ie da abiné adum, vën archiviei, dac inant y fej nascer d’autra stories. Tl video The Jump (2020) mëina n uedl che ti semea a n ucel l spetadëur tres la sfënta tetonica dla Valeda dl Iordan ntan che na usc de n robot se fej dumandes sun n jëun palestinesc che se à fat la mort y ie sautà tl Mer Mediteran. L video ti va do ala tiera psicoafetiva de chësc saut, dl saut tl uet y tl scunesciù coche na azion estrema de liberazion, l sgric fisich y la fin definitiva. L’autra doi prutagonistes, la prufessurëssa de leteratura Wafa Darwish y la psicologa y varidëura de trauma Laila Atshan pënsa do sun si esperienzes a passé via i limic de si mpedimënc y pieta nce na vijion dl senificat y dla gauja dl suizide puscibl dl ël.

A Pontives iel da udëi l video In the Presence of Absence ulache Harb fej referimënt ala seria longia de meditazions liriches de Mahmoud Darwish y pënsa do sun l’assënza, l amor, l nchersciadum, Palestina, la storia, l’amezizia y la relazions danter vita y mort tres na letura poetica y sensuela de n puron dedora dai coi de Ramallah. Te n eserzize de letura di truep strac y sedimënc che mët adum i sasc, spiculea l video sun la cunseguënzes puscibles dl’assënza che Sinan Antoon sotrissea te si cunferënza Before the Ruins: When Mahmoud Darwish meet with Walter Benjamin “dalonc dal vester negativa ie l’assënza la fustia y la tlarëza de cie che y de chi che ëssa pudù y messù vester iló, nia coche avanzadures, ma coche na prejënza tresora che ne lascia nia do”. L’opra se stiza sun l material de nrescida abinà adum ntan na sujurnanza te Sakiya ART/ SCIENCE/AGRICULTURE, l Istitut Franzesc de Gerusalem y te La Ferme du Buisson de Ein Qinya 2021 y la ncëria ie unida sëurandata dala Fundazion A.M. Qattan.

SHURUQ HARB

Shuruq Harb (1980, Ramallah, Palestine) is an artist, filmmaker and writer based in Ramallah. Her artistic practice focuses on online visual culture and traces subversive routes for the circulation of images and goods. Her film The White Elephant received the award for best short film at Cinéma du Réel Festival in Paris in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Hamburg International Short Film Festival in 2019. She is the recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation - Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Award. She is currently collaborating with architect and historian Nadi Abusaada on an experimental documentary titled Al-Mashrou (2024).

Shuruq Harb - In the Presence of Absence, 2024 - Spazio Ferdinand Stuflesser, Pontives

Shuruq Harb, In the Presence of Absence, 2024. Video 14’. Courtesy of the Artist. Commissioned by A.M. Qattan Foundation. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo
Shuruq Harb, In the Presence of Absence, 2024. Videostill. Courtesy of the Artist. Commissioned by A.M. Qattan Foundation.

Shuruq Harb ie n’artista te de plu disciplines, educadëura, regista y scritëura cun sënta a Ramallah. Te si video y nstalazions giapa l’artista si ispirazion dala cultura pop y digitela y se dà ju cun la manieres coche chedri ie da abiné adum, vën archiviei, dac inant y fej nascer d’autra stories. Tl video The Jump (2020) mëina n uedl che ti semea a n ucel l spetadëur tres la sfënta tetonica dla Valeda dl Iordan ntan che na usc de n robot se fej dumandes sun n jëun palestinesc che se à fat la mort y ie sautà tl Mer Mediteran. L video ti va do ala tiera psicoafetiva de chësc saut, dl saut tl uet y tl scunesciù coche na azion estrema de liberazion, l sgric fisich y la fin definitiva. L’autra doi prutagonistes, la prufessurëssa de leteratura Wafa Darwish y la psicologa y varidëura de trauma Laila Atshan pënsa do sun si esperienzes a passé via i limic de si mpedimënc y pieta nce na vijion dl senificat y dla gauja dl suizide puscibl dl ël.

A Pontives iel da udëi l video In the Presence of Absence ulache Harb fej referimënt ala seria longia de meditazions liriches de Mahmoud Darwish y pënsa do sun l’assënza, l amor, l nchersciadum, Palestina, la storia, l’amezizia y la relazions danter vita y mort tres na letura poetica y sensuela de n puron dedora dai coi de Ramallah. Te n eserzize de letura di truep strac y sedimënc che mët adum i sasc, spiculea l video sun la cunseguënzes puscibles dl’assënza che Sinan Antoon sotrissea te si cunferënza Before the Ruins: When Mahmoud Darwish meet with Walter Benjamin “dalonc dal vester negativa ie l’assënza la fustia y la tlarëza de cie che y de chi che ëssa pudù y messù vester iló, nia coche avanzadures, ma coche na prejënza tresora che ne lascia nia do”. L’opra se stiza sun l material de nrescida abinà adum ntan na sujurnanza te Sakiya ART/ SCIENCE/AGRICULTURE, l Istitut Franzesc de Gerusalem y te La Ferme du Buisson de Ein Qinya 2021 y la ncëria ie unida sëurandata dala Fundazion A.M. Qattan.

SHURUQ HARB

Shuruq Harb (1980, Ramallah, Palestine) is an artist, filmmaker and writer based in Ramallah. Her artistic practice focuses on online visual culture and traces subversive routes for the circulation of images and goods. Her film The White Elephant received the award for best short film at Cinéma du Réel Festival in Paris in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Hamburg International Short Film Festival in 2019. She is the recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation - Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Award. She is currently collaborating with architect and historian Nadi Abusaada on an experimental documentary titled Al-Mashrou (2024).