#khaled jarrar

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Reposting.

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Palestine Sunbird: A Stamp of Defiance

In a creative act of dissent, a Palestinian artist makes a postage stamp symbolising freedom from Israeli occupation.

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Good at Shooting, Bad at Painting Khaled Jarrar, 2018

Invoking the CIA's efforts to use abstract art as a pro-american and anti-communist propaganda tool, Jarrar fired an AR-15 to shatter small bottles of paint on to a cloth canvas while seated at an office desk. The audience was invited to give pieces of their clothing to Jarrar so that he could affix them to the canvas, paint them and assign them serial numbers before returning them to the person who cut them off their clothes. After mounting them to the canvas, Jarrar shot pairs of paint filled bottles over and over and over while seated leisurely sitting at an office desk dressed in business attire, sipping coffee and eating a donut. 

“Gently I press the trigger, the bullet capable of reaching hundreds of meters in less than a second. Pressing it is always sensitive and fragile; it is like touching something that has never been touched before. Undoubtedly, the bullet will go fast and hit the target to create colorful shapes, exposing how powerless we can be if we are within its frame. I try to engender a methodology that allows me to create art where I can use the skills that I learned as a trained soldier. This methodology is a space of metaphors, displaying a natural analogy of my accumulated skills as both artist and soldier. I was trained to shoot, to follow rules, and I was good at it.” [Khaled Jarrar, Ⱥ]

Above images are excerpted from a video of the performance on youtube.

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Briefmarke - Marke inviduell der Deutschen Post. State of Palestine

2012

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Khaled's Ladder

Against the backdrop of the US Presidential election, and increasingly anti-immigrant rhetoric coming from Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Palestinian artist, Khaled Jarrar, travels along the US/Mexican border from San Diego/Tijuana to El Paso/Juarez. Along the way Jarrar explores common concerns and human stories along the border. His journey culminates with the installation of an artwork made from stolen pieces of the US/Mexico border wall, in Juarez, Mexico. Although Jarrar has not given the monument a name, local people are calling it, “Khaled’s Ladder.”

This video is a production of Culturunners.

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nostalgia  Khaled Jarrar | Ka'ak Al Quds (Bread of Jerusalem) | 2015 | Reconstituted concrete from the apartheid wall | 4 × 13 × 38 cm | Edition 4/7 + 2AP