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The Artist-in-Residence Program:
The Artist-in-Residence program provides local and visiting artists accommodation and studio facilities in Jerusalem for the creation, presentation, development and exchange of creative projects. This program serves as a meeting place for artists, facilitating creative encounters and discussion forums that are open to the public community, thus activating communication between Palestine and the international world. In order to further encourage this exchange, we invite the artists in-residence to contribute to the Al-Ma’mal Workshops program, working primarily with youth on creative projects.
We provide the artist with accommodation, materials and fabrication assistance, a living fee, the round trip ticket to Jerusalem, 24 hour access to a work space as well as access to a darkroom, workshop facilities and office equipment to enable artists to produce and present their work in Jerusalem. Furthermore, we engage local institutions from Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah in cooperative activities with relation to the artist-in-residence program.
Upon prior agreement with the artists, selected artworks produced are safeguarded and form the Collection of Al-Ma'mal Foundation, which we aspire to develop as the nucleus of a Contemporary Art Museum – Palestine (CAMP). |
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Raeda Saadeh
2001 & 2003
Born in Um Al-Fahem 1977. Lives and works in Jerusalem.
Raeda Saadeh first worked with Al-Ma’mal as part of the Workshops program and was invited to the artist-in-residence program in the autumn of 2002. Immaterial, is the title of Saadeh’s work created during her residency which concentrated on memory significance as represented through the imagery of youth. One entered the gallery space of Gallery Anadiel only to enter a children’s playground, full of sculptures depicting children engaged in typical outdoor childhood games- some children are skipping, some hanging in midair on a swing, others playing together on the sand-filled ground. The numerous sculptural installations, constructed of wire and clothed in usual children’s clothing are incomplete in physical form; relating to the artist’s reflection on the recalling of dreams, where dream characters may be difficult to remember or to identify clearly. Saadeh refers to children growing up on the streets, who are like dream characters; we know that they are there but we cannot recognize their faces or their identities as we consider them not to be important (immaterial).
Saadeh’s performance, photography and video installation work often deal with female sexuality in universal as well as personal terms, where the female body is dealt with in a most provocative and courageous way. The artist strips the imagery of the Orientalist imagination, (the veiled women in particular) down to its bare reality while challenging any interpretation drawn solely according to nationalized borders.
Exhibitions include, Immaterial, Gallery Anadiel, Jerusalem (solo 2003). The New Shehrazades, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona; ArtFocus, Jerusalem (2003). Le Corps comme Territoire, Rencontres Arles, France (2002). In weiter Ferne, so nah, IFA Galleries, Berlin (2001). There, School of Visual Arts, New York (2000).
Education: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem - BFA & MFA (1997-2003). Exchange student at the School of Visual Arts, New York. 1995 - 1997 Menachi College for Arts, Khidera.
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