Ahlam Shibli

Ahlam Shibli was born in Palestine in 1970. Through a documentary aesthetic, her photographic work addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home. It deals with the loss of home and the fight against that loss, but also with restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity politics.

Solo exhibitions
2017 Staring (web commission), Remai Modern, Saskatoon (CA). 2013 Phantom Home, MACBA, Barcelona (ES), Jeu de Paume, Paris; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (PT). 2010 Ahlam Shibli: Trauma, Château de Sédières, Clergoux (FR). Ahlam Shibli: Why did you leave the forest empty!, Darat al Funun, Amman. 2009 Ahlam Shibli: Wydomowienie, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.

Group exhibitions
2017 documenta14, Athens & Kassel (DE). Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon (CA). The Photographic I, S.M.A.K. Ghent (BE). 2015 la terre nous est etroite, regards croisés sur la palestine, Le 19 CRAC, Montbéliard (FR). Formes biographiques, Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR). Uncovering History, Camera Austria, Graz (AT). 2014 Progress and Hygiene, Zachęta, Warsaw. We are Living on a Star, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden (NO).

Publications
Ulrich Loock (ed.): Ahlam Shibli: Dependence, Ediciones Originales, Barcelona 2013.
Ahlam Shibli: Phantom Home, exh. cat., Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Jeu de Paume, Paris, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013.
Ahlam Shibli: Go there, Eat the mountain, Write the past, exh. cat., Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman 2011.
Ahlam Shibli: Trauma, exh. cat., Peuple et Culture Corrèze, Tulle 2010.
Adam Szymczyk (ed.): Ahlam Shibli: Trackers, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2007.

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