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A’IDUN العائدين
[the returnee]
2016 – ongoingFollowing the mass displacement of the Palestinian community that began in 1948 and continues to this day, Palestinian right-to-return is a hot point of discussion at the United Nations. ‘A’idun’ is a title that the Palestinian dispora assigned to themselves, translating from Arabic (العائدين) to describe ‘those who shall return’. As a nod to this contentious issue I adopted a ‘right to return’ principle within my own work; whereby on each successive trip to Palestine I would bring with me prints from the previous visit, intending to ‘return’ them to their rightful owners. Here are a selection of those returned so far...
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EXHIBITED AT ISO AMSTERDAM, 2019
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