2 EXHIBITS MEET UNDER 1 ROOF:
YOUTH - WOMEN
כאן נולדנו - هُنا وُلِدنا
We Were Born Here
A Photography Exhibition
The exhibition "We Were Born Here" presents a unique view through the lens of the camera of the joint youth group of the 2017 Through Other Eyes program, into the lives of Arab and Jewish youth just before they become adults in Israeli society.
During the year the joint group learned the secrets of photography and the power of a picture
to convey a message. Later, they went together to the surrounding areas and communities
and were hosted in the homes of the participants, while getting to know their families.
The exhibition "We Were Born Here" presents a photographic study of the central themes that concern the group regarding the similarities and differences between the two societies: honor, relationships and family relations, beauty in difference, tradition, culture and customs.
One of the central insights that the group reached during the process was that the land and the sense of belonging to the place were shared by both sides.
"We Were Born Here" conveys a message: for both Jews and Arabs, this is the picture of our
reality, which indicates that we must accept each other's existence on this earth,
to respect and recognize each other's world;
To see, to cope with, to accept and agree
that the land is shared by all of us - here we were born!
Through this unique shared perspective, the exhibitors ask viewers to set aside not only the
common stereotypes and stigmas attributed to each culture, but also those that
we do not always recognize within ourselves, but are found in each and every one of us,
the result of separate education and separate lives.
They are asking us to bring genuine
openness to a new statement.
Rama Yazme, Rauf Abu Fani
Program facilitators
Through Others’ Eyes
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Women 2017
Presents:
"Her: Surroundings"
Through Others’
Eyes is a photography project that aims to enable a group of Arab and
Jewish women to get to know each other’s culture through creativity, learning,
and shared experiences.
Throughout
the program, the group met photographers from Israel and from abroad, learned
about the camera, and experienced creating images that tell a story. The
meetings included visits to the homes of the participants, a personal meeting
with an artist, and a visit to a photography exhibition.
During
the course there were sessions dealing with women’s issues, culture, family,
and our surroundings. These sessions revealed similar and different worlds and
became the raw materials of the exhibition: opposites intertwined on the same
plot of land.
The
subject of our surroundings emerged as the main issue: space, landscape, that
part of the world which we all love, prevailed through the lens of the camera.
And
in that environment we highlight different facets of female representation.
In
the history of art, women were traditionally situated in domestic spheres-- in
the role of hostess, or performing tasks related to the kitchen. But as women
find their place within the arts those locations tend to change as well.
This
exhibition presents women as they go out into the world around them and examine
their presence in it. For Arab and Jewish women being in the outside world
cannot be limited to issues of gender. It lends way to more general questions
about history and ties to the land.
The
exhibition illuminates the learning experience.
The
meetings and the many questions that came up remained open. There is no ending
or summary, but it is a women’s proposal to reexamine our mutual world
Through
Others' Eyes - Women 2017
The
Instructor Tamar Shalit Avni
Rauf
Abu Fani
Abir
Genayem
