Emily Jacir
Emily Jacir
Palestinian artist and filmmaker
Born in Bethlehem in 1970, Jacir attended the University of Dallas, Irving, the Memphis College of Art and the Whitney Independent Study Program and has been living and working between New York and the West Bank. Arguably the foremost Palestinian artist working today, she has received a number of prominent awards. The Hugo Boss Prize's international jury said of their selection: "Emily Jacir combines the roles of archivist, activist and poet to create poignant and memorable works of art that are at once intensely personal and deeply political. It is the refined sophistication of Jacir's art and the relevance of her concerns -- both global and local -- in a time of war, transnationalism and mass migration that led us to award her the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize."
An empty luggage conveyor, turning in circles, symbolises the restricted freedom of travel of the Palestinian people. The sculpture ‘embrace’ is highly significant for Emily Jacir’s work in general. The object is characterised both by the absurdity of the word ‘embrace’ itself as well as by the subtlety it shares with all of her artistic oeuvre.
Emily Jacir by
Palestinian artist Emily Jacir, who was born in 1970, takes on such highly fraught collisions of culture, religion and politics with conceptually complex yet elegant and emotionally moving means of resistance. This publication collects recent works, including "From Paris to Riyadh," (1999-2001). In this central work, Jacir, now one of the Middle East's most important contemporary artists, aims to illuminate the overlap between western culture and Arab values by making pencil drawings over the naked skin of models in glossy magazines, censoring certain areas according to custom.
ISBN: 9783939738572Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Emily Jacir: Ex Libris by
In "Ex Libris," Emily Jacir (born 1970) commemorates the approximately 30,000 books that were looted by Israel in 1948 from Palestinian homes and institutions. Six thousand of these books are held at the Jewish National Library of Israel under the designation "A.P." (Abandoned Property). Jacir photographed these books during repeated visits to the library.
ISBN: 9783863352431Publication Date: 2013-03-31
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