Literature

These works recover else forgotten moments of Palestine’s past from oblivion, reintroducing them in collages of photographic material and architectural shapes.

Assembling historical material of Palestine’s past, including photographs, negatives and slides, the collages of Harb are rich in imagery symbolic of Palestinian culture and history. They not only cast light on the present through the past and vice versa, but create images from a construction of the historical material itself.

Harb cuts reality apart to gather the fragments in the formation of a new whole, exploring the experience and memory of being in place and of being displaced. Place and space are seen in the present while invoking a past of dwelling – a sense of belonging, which belongs to a time before Israel.