Ahlam Shibli
A voyage to the Notion of Home in the work of Ahlam Shibli
A voyage to the Notion of Home in the work of Ahlam Shibli
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Ahlam Shibli est née en Palestine en 1970. A travers l’esthétique du documentaire, le travail photographique de Ahlam Shibli interroge les implications contradictoires inhérentes à la notion même de domicile; la perte de ce domicile et la lutte contre cette perte. Mais aussi avec les restrictions et les limitations que cette idée même de domicile impose aux individus et aux communautés, frappés par des politiques identitaires répressives.
Son travail a été présenté, parmi d’autres, à ICO, Seoul Museum of Art, Fotonoviembre, IVAM, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, MSU, UGM, Remai Modern, S.M.A.K., documenta 14, Cassa di Risparmio, Camera Austria, Carré d’Art, Zachęta, Qalandiya International, Henie Onstad, Muzeum Sztuki, MACBA, Jeu de Paume, Serralves, Reina Sofía, Haus der Kunst, Galeria Kombëtare e Kosovës, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Tate Modern, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Darat al Funun, KW, CGAC, Centre Pompidou, Documenta 12, Bienal de São Paulo, Kunsthalle Basel, Busan Biennale, Seville Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, T1 Torino Triennale, Yokohama Museum.
Ahlam Shibli est actuellement artiste en résidence à LUMA Arles.

Ahlam Shibli, untitled (Occupation no. 15), al-Khalil/Hebron, Palestine, 2016–17, chromogenic print, 40 x 60 cm.
‘Ain al-Qurneh neighborhood, Old Town, al-Khalil, December 20, 2016.
Families use metal barrels and containers filled with stones, debris, and concrete to separate their properties from their neighbors’.
Courtesy of the artist, © Ahlam Shibli

Ahlam Shibli, untitled (Occupation no. 23), al-Khalil/Hebron, Palestine, 2016–17, chromogenic print, 40 x 60 cm.
The house of the Hashem and Nisreen Azzeh family, Othman ben Affan Street, Tel Rumeida, al-Khalil, December 4, 2016.
The three children of Hashem Azzeh—Younis, Khaled, and Hanan—together with their cousin Ahmad. They are watching a technician install a television set, donated by a Danish solidarity delegation. Hashem Azzeh was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on October 21, 2015, poisoned by tear gas that was used in a clash between young Palestinians and Israeli forces.
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Ahlam Shibli, al-Qurein (Goter no. 38), al-Naqab, Palestine, 2002–03, gelatine silver print, 38 x 57.7 cm.
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Ahlam Shibli, untitled (Trauma no. 13), Corrèze, France, 2008–09, chromogenic print, 38 x 57.7 cm. Tulle, 9th June, 2009.
Wreath-laying ceremony at the Stèle des Martyrs, rue Louisa Paulin, in Tulle, to commemorate the 99 men from Tulle hanged from balconies and lamp posts by the 2nd armoured SS division ‘Das Reich’ on the 9th June, 1944 and the 149 residents who were deported on the 10th June, 1944 to German concentration camps, from where 101 of them did not return. Participating in this ceremony to honour the civilian victims of the Nazi atrocities are veterans of the Second World War and the colonial wars in Indochina and North Africa with the flags of their associations.
Courtesy of the artist, © Ahlam Shibli