Hazem Harb Palestinian-Italian, b. 1980
Rome, 2005
Mixed media on hessian fabric
60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in
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Archival work from 2005—produced 20 years ago while Hazem Harb was a student in Italy, newly displaced from Gaza. This early mixed-media piece, rendered on coarse hessian, features abstracted figurative forms in states of emergence and erosion.
This work suggests a continuum. The same concerns—of fragmentation, layering, and the morphing of the human figure—persist in Harb's practice two decades later.