until Sunday June 30 2013
Liceo Artistico Statale di Venezia
Organization: Al Hoash
T : +39 041 521 0669
Palazzo Ca' Giustinian Recanati, Dorsoduro 1012 (Accademia)
Venice
Italy
Otherwise Occupied features two internationally renowned Palestinian artists, Bashir Makhoul and Aissa Deebi.
Both artists were born inside the 1948 borders, in the margins of another state in their homeland and outside the occupied West Bank and the centres of contemporary Palestinian culture.
They have emigrated to become citizens of other states operating in a globalised art world. They still think of themselves as Palestinians and are in search of new ways to imagine the nation from a distance. Art is capable of occupying cultural spaces that are otherwise inaccessible or invisible. Otherwise Occupied describes other ways of imagining the nation outside and beyond the conflict; it is therefore a means of artistic and critical thinking through the de-territorialisation of Palestine.
