{"id":262351,"date":"2019-11-14T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=262351"},"modified":"2019-11-14T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:14:39","slug":"palestinian-artist-abdul-katanani-in-a-residence-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/palestinian-artist-abdul-katanani-in-a-residence-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian artist Abdul Katanani in a residence in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Palestinian artist Abdul Rahman Katanani (pictured above)<\/em> is participating in an artistic residence in Brazil and will take part in a series of activities in both Sergipe and S\u00e3o Paulo, including public meetings till the end of the next week. Katanani is one of the world\u2019s greatest contemporary artists and was invited to Brazil by Beit21, a platform for South-South artistic and cultural interchange.<\/p>\n

Katanani was born in 1982 at refugee camp in Sabra, Lebanon, a year after the massacre that took place there. The artist was raised in the camp and his art is mostly a reflection about life as a refugee and among refugees. To create his installations and sculptures, the artists uses materials available in the camp, such as cardboard and old rags and tools. Sculptures in barbed wire are one of the artist\u2019s trademarks.<\/p>\n

The residence\u2019s curator Geraldo Campos says that he discovered Katanani\u2019s work at a gallery in Lebanon and was mesmerized by the artist\u2019s giant wave made of barbed wired that seemed it would break over the visitor. Campos wanted to know more about the artist and met him in Paris, France some time later. \u201cHis art is very powerful, striking. Besides being an artist, he reflects on art,\u201d says Campos, who is also one of Beit21’s founders.<\/p>\n

The curator highlights the way Katanani deals with the singularity of producing an aesthetics based on a refugee camp. The Palestinian started painting as a child about the day-to-day reality in the camp where he lived and got into the art world as a cartoonist. His work is considered by many critics as a realistic, vivid picture of Palestinians’ hardships and resistance.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian started his artistic residence in Brazil in Sergipe, where he had participated in talks and worked with different artists. Next Friday (15) at 5 pm, he\u2019ll talk to the public about the theme \u201cBetween camps and checkpoints \u2013 Two perspectives on Palestine,\u201d a chat that will feature Palestinian sociologist Baha Hilo and be mediated by Ahmed Zoghbi, one of Beit21\u2019s founders. Hilo\u2019s work is focused on education. He takes groups of foreigners to get to know the Palestinian reality.<\/p>\n

The encounter between Katanani, Hilo and Zoghbi will take place at Teatro Elic at Cine Trianon in the city of S\u00e3o Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o, Sergipe as part of the program of the 36th<\/sup> S\u00e3o Cristov\u00e3o Arts Festival (FASC). On the same place, at 2 pm, the movie \u201cFootball and Barriers\u201d will be screened and followed by a debate with director Arturo Hartman, another Beit21’s founder. As part of FASC, Katanani will make an artistic intervention with local artists in the morning. The festival will also include a literature workshop by Ahmed Zoghbi themed \u201cResistance Literature\u201d on Palestinian literature at the S\u00e3o Paroquial at the Igreja Matriz de S\u00e3o Cristov\u00e3o on the 16th<\/sup> at 2 pm.<\/p>\n

Next week, Katanani will be in S\u00e3o Paulo. On Monday (18) at 7:30 pm, he\u2019ll participate in a chat with Brazilian plastic artist Lia Chaia with the theme \u201cArt in the camp: The permanence of the provisional.\u201d The encounter takes place at Ateli\u00ea 397 in the neighborhood of Pompeia in S\u00e3o Paulo. Next Wednesday (20), the Black Awareness Day, the Palestinian will hold a workshop called \u201cArt and extermination territory: Black bodies, Palestinian bodies\u201d at Ocupa\u00e7\u00e3o 9 de Julho with Baha Hilo and Brazilian plastic artist Mois\u00e9s Patr\u00edcio in the neighborhood of Bela Vista.<\/p>\n

The Beit21 platform was launched last year and one of its first activities was holding a program in Brazil in September 2018 in honor of Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass<\/a>, which included theater performances, movie screenings, debates, and other activities featuring Hiam. The Palestinian actress\u2019 visit was the focus of the 1st<\/sup> Cycle of Palestinian Art in Brazil.<\/p>\n

This year, the platform brought Katanani as a guest for an artistic residence, which is part of the 2nd<\/sup> Cycle of Palestinian Art in Brazil. For 2020, the call to artists to apply for residence is open, says Geraldo Campos. The platform is directed to the entire South region but currently is focused on bringing Brazilian and Palestinian artists\u2019 work closer to each other.<\/p>\n

The cycle and the artistic residence are supported by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong> and the Federation of Muslim Associations in Brazil (Fambras) and are being held by Beit21 in partnership with other organizations such as the Faculty Association in the Federal University of Sergip (Adufs) and the Cultural Foundation City of Aracaju (Funcaju). The launch of Beit21 was also supported by the Arab Chamber.<\/a><\/p>\n

Quick facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Cycle of Palestinian Art in Brazil
\n1st<\/sup> Artistic Residence Experience
\nSergipe \u2013 S\u00e3o Paulo
\nHosted by Beit21 \u2013 Find out more here<\/a><\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tanya Traboulsi for Artsy<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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