Clay Sheet Amulets, 2025.
Wild clay sourced from Palestinian refugee camps, coal, hair, cotton.
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This work is a series of wild clay amulets on canvas. These amulets are experiments made of wild clay sourced from a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, where the artist was born and raised. They are constructed with materials and scripts that have been used in Arab and Nordic folk medicine for healing and protection.
The artist believes that for the long the path of indigenous resistance to colonial erasure, refugee camps as resistance structures transformed into living amulets as an embodiment of powers of protection. They protect our identity and our right to return.
Therefore, physical materials from Palestinian refugee camps are used in this work as the main spiritual material of these amulets.
This collection of clay sheets was developed in collaboration with figurative painter Hamza Jaber, who contributed as the artistic technique director.
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This work is a series of wild clay amulets on canvas. These amulets are experiments made of wild clay sourced from a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, where the artist was born and raised. They are constructed with materials and scripts that have been used in Arab and Nordic folk medicine for healing and protection.
The artist believes that for the long the path of indigenous resistance to colonial erasure, refugee camps as resistance structures transformed into living amulets as an embodiment of powers of protection. They protect our identity and our right to return. Therefore, physical materials from Palestinian refugee camps are used in this work as the main spiritual material of these amulets.
This collection of clay sheets was developed in collaboration with figurative painter Hamza Jaber, who contributed as the artistic technique director.
The artist believes that for the long the path of indigenous resistance to colonial erasure, refugee camps as resistance structures transformed into living amulets as an embodiment of powers of protection. They protect our identity and our right to return. Therefore, physical materials from Palestinian refugee camps are used in this work as the main spiritual material of these amulets.
This collection of clay sheets was developed in collaboration with figurative painter Hamza Jaber, who contributed as the artistic technique director.