Ahlam Shibli

Ahlam Shibli (Arabic أحلام شبلي, DMG Ahlam SIBLI; * 1970 in Arab al Shibli / Israel ) is a Palestinian photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally, including at Documenta. The images and series of Shibli have a documentary approach, which holds that " suffering and the ongoing discrimination against the Palestinians in their homeland ."

Life

Ahlam Shibli belongs to the ethnic group of Bedouins and grew up in the village of Arab al Shibli on in Galilee. 1993 joined Shibli the study of art and archeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a bachelor's degree. In 1996 he was a bachelor's degree in social work at the University of Haifa. In the same year, she took the first steps to show their photographs to an audience, and a Diploma in Photography at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education put 1997. 1999 was Shibli's first exhibition participation in the official framework of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv instead. Shibli completed a Masters degree in film and television in Tel Aviv, which they in 2004 with an MFA completed. Shibli lives and works in Haifa.

The photographer works in black and white as in color. Your photographs show buildings and structures mostly in frontal view, while rooms in central perspective are shown. This creates a distancing between the photographer and the subject image, photographer - and in their place the viewer - to be "outsiders". If people are seen to Shibli's images, so rare these form the heart of the action, they are not portrayed. Instead, these people are in action, so that the photographs obtained a reportage-like character. Despite this common style features the work of Shibli be connected by their contents rather than by a photographic "signature style ". Your well-known and much work shown Wadi Saleib in Nine Volumes (1996-1998), Unrecognised (1999-2000), goter (2002-2003) and tracker ( 2005) series of photographs on topics of the Palestinian presence and history that they often years prepared.

The title of the work goter is a word from the idiom of the Bedouin in the home of Ahlam Shibli, and is used there as an invitation to go to a place. Supposedly it comes from the English Go there!, And went in the time of the British Mandate in the local dialect over. Thus, the title both heteronomy and appropriation expresses. The pictures in the series goter made ​​Shibli, between October 2002 and February 2003 in the region around Beersheba in the Negev desert. In the pictures, landscapes can be seen with individual buildings and settlements, including cemeteries and dilapidated buildings. People are rarely depicted, mostly it then children. The subtext of the photographs is the absence of the formerly living here Bedouins. After the Negev Israel brought under control, took the Israeli government to try to make the semi-nomadic living here Bedouin sedentary, or to urge as cheap labor in the cities. At other places, the Bedouin have settled without these settlements are officially recognized. This particular topic goes according to Shibli in their work Unrecognised.

Solo exhibitions (selection )

• 2009: Wydomowienie / Unhoming, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Warsaw. On display were the three photo series "Dom Dziecka - The house starves When You Are Away ", " tracker " and " Dependence ".
• 2008: Trackers / The Valley, Contretype Photographic, Brussels.
• 2007: Ahlam Shibli, Dundee Contemporary Arts.
• 2006: tracker, Kunsthalle Basel.
• 2003: goter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• 1999: Wadi Saleib in Nine Volumes, foreign office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv.

Group exhibitions ( selection)

• 2008: Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, MACBA, Barcelona and Museu Berardo in Lisbon Colecção. On display was the standard Dependence.
• 2008: Les Inquiets, Centre Pompidou, Paris. On display was the series The Valley.
• 2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany. was shown Arab al - Sbaih and a selection of works from goter.
• 2006: The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, BIACS 2, Sevilla.
• 2005: Dreaming Dreaming Reality Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art was shown the series Catastrophe: Refuge in frost.
• 2004: Staying or leaving / Ostati ili otici, Art Pavilion Zagreb and Camera Austria in Graz. On display was the series goter.
• 2004: Non-Sect/Radical: Contemporary Photography III were shown, Yokohama Museum of Art, the series goter and Self-Portrait.
• 2003: DisORIENTation - contemporary Arab art from the Middle East, House of World Cultures in Berlin. Shibli took part in Nine Volumes with the series Unrecognised and Wadi Saleib.