Key of Return
In ‘Ayda Refugee Camp, just outside Bethlehem, every single resident has been exposed to tear gas bombs, often multiple times a week, making it the most tear-gassed community ever documented. In order to get there, you must drive along the separation wall, where breaths are skipped as petrol burns. Not so long ago, Jerusalem’s neighbourhoods Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan witnessed yet more Palestinian homes expropriated; “khalas? You left my hand holding a key without the house it opens!” In this exhibition we return to the shades beneath the olive trees, to the scent of jasmine in Jaffa, the mulberries of Ramallah, the flower tatreez of Khalil, the steadfast mountains of Nablus, the sea that cradles Gaza. In the art you are about to see, you will encounter a reimagined homeland—where a items once crafted as weapons turn into beautiful jewellery, where grandfather’s memories are sketched into every corner of the city, where smuggled sperm claims life from within Israeli prisons, where colour becomes an escape from loss, and where flying fish return, once again, to Gaza. Welcome everyone, for this is your home. It has got no key, for it was never meant to be locked.
Join us between the 14–18th of August at GlogauAIR!
Opening times 13:00–22:00
