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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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Scarlett Hooft Graafalnd
2000
Born in the Netherlands in 1973.
Scarlett initially came to Jerusalem (invited by Gallery Anadiel) as part of her continuing art academic studies. During her stay in Jerusalem in 1999-2000, Scarlett became interested in the historical meaning of the city, more specifically, in the three world religions that have their holy places within the old city of Jerusalem. She researched the ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’ phenomena that some travelers, as well as residents of the city experience. Individuals with this syndrome tend to have an idealized view of Jerusalem, and as a result, act in a bizarre and irrational fashion. They are literally intoxicated by the Holy City, and some are even declared temporarily insane due to the extreme measures of their religious beliefs.
In Parttime Human, Scarlett questions issues about ‘the real Jesus’, reacting to the madness on the commerce around his figure, while making references to the same kind of questions people suffering from the ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’ are dealing with. Scarlett created miniature figurines of sheep and Jesus heads made from natural olive soap, utilizing the same traditional soap-making methods produced in the Nablus soap factory. Scarlett filled the entire Gallery Anadiel floor with these sculptures, distributing them in bundles throughout the gallery space and visitors were compelled to walk around and in between the flocks of sheep led by the Jesus heads. Restricted in movement, the visitor, like the sheep figurine, was also being ‘led’ with deliberate and effortless fashion, and by this means, the sheep and those visiting the exhibition merged together as being one in the same, metaphorically speaking.
Graafland’s exhibitions include: Parttime Human, Gallery Anadiel, Jerusalem (solo 2000). Odradek ,The Populas Gallery, Tel Aviv (2000), and Sculptures of Justice, The Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands (1998).
Education: Minerva Academy, Groningen. Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague. Post Graduate program in Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Awards: -Magnum Traffic Art price 1999 -South Holland Art price 1999
Images courtesy of Gallery Anadiel from Graafland's exhibition.
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