“The shared space of this exhibition is home to a group of artists who have come from a large geographical area from all of Palestine. The Palestine that lived within the core of the poet Mahmoud Darwish. Despite the difficulty, we are here also in the presence of art works by artists from Palestine ’48. Their work pays tribute to a poet who represents us as one large family, a Palestinian family. Through their visual vocabulary these 27 artists are creating a dialogue not in order to translate Darwish’s work or to clarify it, as much as to present each artist’s particular homage to the poet and his poetry and to reflect on the void left by his absence.”

-Ismat Al Asad, Nablus, November 5, 2008

Artists:
Abdul Rahman Muzayyen, Ahmad Kanaan, Ayman Halabi, Bashar Hroub, Dina Ghazal, Fahd Halabi, Faten Nastas, Hamada Maddah, Husni Radwan, Ibrahim Noubani, Ismat Asad, Jawad Ibrahim, Khaled Hourani, Mohammad Abu Sitteh, Mohammad Saleh Khalil, Monther Jawabreh, Nabil Anani, Nael Qaderi, Raafat Asad, Sana Farah Bishara, Suleiman Mansour, Taleb Dweik, Tayseer Barakat, Vera Tamari, Zuhdi Qaderi.

This exhibition is organized by Darat al Funun, Al Balad Theater and Al Mahatta Gallery. Catalogue of the exhibition organized by Al Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah.