Eman Haram is an interdisciplinary artist from many countries and identities. Palestinian by lineage, Damascene by birth, Lebanese by symbiosis having spent nearly twenty years of her life in the profligate city of Beirut, Jordanian by a stroke of fate, American and Canadian by naturalization. After completing her undergraduate and graduate studies in architecture and art history in the United States, where she lived and worked in numerous cities for more than two decades, she relocated to Canada in 2001 and is currently living in the vast spaces between Montreal and Amman.
The Nabad Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition of forty of Haram’s works. In Iconographies her second solo exhibition at Nabad, Haram presents an excerpt of a project that attempts to reassemble a vanishing homeland outside delineated maps and contentious geographical boundaries. In this open-ended series of photographic images, which blurs the boundaries between photography and other print media, the artist explores the physical and metaphysical states deriving from banishment. She reclaims familiar iconic symbols and narratives that are historically connected with Palestine, and layers them with added significance to reach a new vision of a denied homeland beyond the concrete, to the mythical and spiritual. The recovery of a vanishing homeland becomes an act of archeological excavation to counter all forms of forced erasures, a return to beginnings, where all narratives converge.
Fanny Lambert
Iconographies
Festival de l’Image – « Macro & Me »
From March 18th to April 17th, 2013
Nabad Gallery
Jabal Amman, 46 Uthman bin Affan street, First Circle, P.O.Box 2966
Amman 11181, Jordan
