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Desire in Diaspora: Emily Jacir By T. J. Demos, March 2017
s with the work of Ayreen Anastas, Mona Hatoum, and Rashid Masharawi, other artists who deal with the Palestinian diaspora, it is perhaps the complexity of exile that drives Jacir to neo-Conceptual strategies: the photo-text presentation, the linguistic dimension, the task-based performance, the statistical survey of responses, the use of the newspaper advertisement, the artist as service provider. Through such models, the condition of exile that is her subject emerges within her work, drifting between mediums, producing material dislocations, necessitating physical travel, leading to collaborations with diasporic communities.
Award-winning Palestinian director seeks stories untold
The themes she tries to tackle in her works, she said, are human-related, personal stories. “I’m interested in small moments between people.”
“Themes in my works usually have to do with… some kind of personal, inner struggle, people who struggle with something.”
Being a Palestinian, she tries to focus on stories from Palestine, Iraq and Syria, shining the light on the “underdog” — the side of the story that people do not often hear.
“I’m interested in those stories, I think I’m drawn to [them], to see what is between the lines, what we’re not shown, not the black and the white, but the grey area,” the director told The Jordan Times.
“Salt of this Sea”, produced in 2008, was Jacir’s first feature film and was an Official Selection at Cannes International Film Festival.
http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/award-winning-palestinian-director-seeks-stories-untold
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