Silman Mansour
Introducing the Other
In “Introducing the Other” (2007), Sliman Mansour envisioned the possibility of bringing together two separate communities living within the walls of the old city of Jerusalem. He set out to photograph portraits of African community and Armenian community members with a plan to exhibit the respective portraits in their opposite community. However, in the course of the Jerusalem show preparations, we learned that this would not be possible to exhibit the photographs in either the African or the Armenian communities, and thus, a decision was made to exhibit all photographs of both communities at the Al-Ma’mal gallery space, New Gate.
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