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New Gate, Old City
Jerusalem 91145
P.O.Box 14644
T: (+972) 2 6283457
F: (+972) 2 6272312 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art – Palestine (CAMP):
The Museum of Contemporary Art (CAMP) was established to relate to one of the core Palestinian experiences – displacement; as well as to account for the growing collection of visual art that has been safeguarded by Al-Ma’mal over the past ten years. There was/is a need to create a lever for new opportunities, innovative thought, and dynamic multi-cultural activity within, and surrounding Palestinian art, culture, and environment. Our goal is to utilize CAMP to relate to Palestine and its rich and multifaceted textures (traditional/ historical backdrop embedded within contemporary ambitions), while encouraging and strengthening international communications as well. We believe that a contemporary art museum must be a flexible, living organism; an expanding space that will facilitate the realization of cultural projects, empower creative individuals of all nationalities, and avoid stagnation that might otherwise act negatively in like developments. For this reason, we envision CAMP’s essence not solely as a physical place (for that would undermine our working philosophy and limit creative potential), but as an authentic, accessible, and fluid entity, a nomadic site where dialogue, growth, and resourceful experimentation are encouraged.
Our project involves the biennial 'nomadic' movement of CAMP, its cumulative art collection and 'portable' structure. Every year, CAMP will find a temporary 'home' under the auspices of a 'host museum.' The 'host museums' – located across the globe – will be invited to interact with CAMP's presence and to initiate projects and exhibitions.
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| Alban Biaussat / Anne-Marie Filaire / Ayreen Anastas / Ayse Erkmen / Beat Streuli / Desiree Palmen / Emily Jacir /
Jananne Al-Ani / Jean-Luc Vilmouth / Jean-Marc Bustamante / Luc Chery / Mario Rizzi / Mona Hatoum / Nicolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen /
Peter Riedlinger / Phil Collins / Raeda Saadeh / Rineke Dijkstra / Rosalind Nashashibi / Samir Srouji / Scarlett Hooft Graafland /
Suzan Hijab / Zeyad Dajani / Zoe Leonard /
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Luc Chery
Les Habitats - Ode to the Refugee Camps
2003
Chery was born in Bordeaux, France in 1962. He studied photography at Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Saint Luc a Liege.
Chery was an artist-in-residence at Al-Ma'mal Foundation and participated in Al Ma'mal's Workshop program as an instructor. He introduced Palestinian youths to a wide variety of materials, particularly focusing on recycled materials and the creative possibilities of working with such materials. Chery's 'Les Habitats - Ode to the Refugee Camps' is a photographic project of temporary structures such as tents, shacks and other spaces enclosed by cloth or plastic sheeting in Gaza. In conjunction, Chery photographed assemblages of discarded materials he constructed in Bordeaux in the course of the past years. He used old plastic, fabric, as well as furniture parts to construct small living spaces. Looking at the images of refugee camps alongside miniatures built by Chery, it is sometimes hard to differentiate between Gaza and Bordeaux. Both convey a sense of confinement, closed space.
Artists set before us a valuable distinction, that between waste and its potential as art. In addition, Chery casts light on the current situation Palestinians face. He conveys empathetically a picture of a people sheltered by such 'waste' structures, described as such because of their use of discarded materials to construct them. 'Les Habitats' successfully point to the relationships between the object as waste, its functional form, its aesthetic beauty and the condition of Palestine.
Photography
Produced by Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art.
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