https://halabinas.com www.halabinas.com Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:22:57 +0000 https://halabinas.com en https://halabinas.com/info Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:31:06 +0000 www.halabinas.com https://halabinas.com/info &nbsp; &nbsp; Inas Halabi (b.1988, Palestine) is an Artist/Filmmaker. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Luleå Biennial (2024), Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2023), de Appel Amsterdam (solo 2023), Showroom London (solo 2022), Europalia Festival, Brussels (2021), Silent Green Betonhalle, Berlin (2021); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2020); and Film at Lincoln Center, USA (2020). Her recent work has been supported by&nbsp;Amarte, Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst (AFK), Mondriaan Fund,&nbsp; and Sharjah Art Foundation.&nbsp; She lives and works between Palestine and the Netherlands. &nbsp;EDUCATION &nbsp;2012-2014 Masters of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS &nbsp;July 2024To&nbsp;A Returning Cloud, solo show; curated by Gabrielle Domb, Brookline Arts Centre, USA July 202436th Galway Film Fleadh, (Irish Premiere) ‘We No Longer Prefer Mountains’ March 2024 The Centre Does Not Hold, solo show; curated by Jess Clifford, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, NZ March 2024 Luleå Biennial: On the threshold of 1:1,&nbsp;group show; curated by Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida, Sweden Feb 2024 …that creeps from the earth, group show; curated by Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Athens, Greece Jan 2024 Reel Palestine Film Festival, Dubai, UAE &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Dec 2023 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sharjah Film Platform 6, Sharjah, UAE Sept 2023 Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Toronto, Canada May 2023 A Return of the Sun (group show) at Beirut Art Centre, Beirut April 2023Hot Docs Film Festival (world premiere) ‘We No Longer Prefer Mountains’ at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto March 2023After the Last Sky (solo show), de Appel,&nbsp; Amsterdam Oct 2022&nbsp; We No Longer Prefer Mountains (solo show), the Showroom, London &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Oct 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Trains &amp; Tracks, Europalia Arts Festival, Brussels, Belgium &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; July 2021 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Garden: Cinematics of the Soil (group show) at Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin &nbsp; &nbsp; Nov 2020 Art of the Real, online cinema program (organized by Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes, with program advisor Almudena Escobar Lopez), Film at Lincoln Center, USA Sept 2020 Municipal Art Acquisitions (group show; curated by Fadwa Naamna and Britte Sloothaak), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Jan 2020 WET LOUNGE #4, (screening program organised by WET collective), TENT, Rotterdam Nov 2019 VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet, (group show; curated by Leonardo Bigazzi), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Nov 2019 We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction (screening and artist talk), Mosaic Rooms, London July 2019 How to Reappear, (publication group show); curated by Ala’ Younis and Maha Ma’amoun),Beirut Art Center, Beirut May 2019 Contested Grounds – Contested Colors, Films, Installations and a Book (group show), Silent Green Betonhalle, Berlin May 2019 Once a Closely Guarded Secret (group show; curated by Martin Herbert), De Ateliers, Amsterdam &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sept 2018&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Letters to Fritz and Paul&nbsp; (solo show; curated by Emma Chubb), Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, United States ** AWARDS/ GRANTS 2024 Development Grant (Visual Arts), Amarte Foundation, NL 2022-2026 Established Artist Grant (Visual Arts), Mondriaan Fonds, NL&nbsp; 2022 Production Grant (Visual Arts), Sharjah Art Foundation,&nbsp; UAE 2020 3Package Deal Grant, AFK (Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst), NL 2020-2022 Consortium Commission Production Grant, MOPHRADAT, Belgium&nbsp; 2017 Production Grant (Visual Arts), Arab Funds for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Lebanon 2016 Production Grant, MOPHRADAT, Belgium&nbsp; 2016 Young Artist of the Year Award (First Prize), the A.M. Qattan Foundation, Palestine https://halabinas.com/texts Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:22:57 +0000 www.halabinas.com https://halabinas.com/texts <img width="1080" height="1920" width_o="1080" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/deecaffb8216c1f8060460632b2751adcde95852e41d7fc83062bb77ad4b405f/07.INASHALABI_VERT-1080x1920_FULLCLR.png" data-mid="168424850" border="0" data-scale="14" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/deecaffb8216c1f8060460632b2751adcde95852e41d7fc83062bb77ad4b405f/07.INASHALABI_VERT-1080x1920_FULLCLR.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2935" height="4032" width_o="2935" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f520d5c80e5c790335200e3de9cbbd6490359f9dc398c75c065d601329c427e5/letters-to-fritz-and-paul-1.jpeg" data-mid="168427477" border="0" data-scale="18" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f520d5c80e5c790335200e3de9cbbd6490359f9dc398c75c065d601329c427e5/letters-to-fritz-and-paul-1.jpeg" />. 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https://halabinas.com/Information <img width="3744" height="4188" width_o="3744" height_o="4188" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22d8e4d08c5c9dfd12e737f13d9a83a0c04e02f33d731d15bc9ab5858ad15169/inas.jpg" data-mid="166325522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22d8e4d08c5c9dfd12e737f13d9a83a0c04e02f33d731d15bc9ab5858ad15169/inas.jpg" /> &nbsp; inashalabi@gmail.com Inas Halabi (b.1988, Palestine) is a Visual Artist/ Filmmaker. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths College in London and completed the De Ateliers artist residency in 2019. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2023), de Appel Amsterdam (2023), Showroom London (2022), Europalia Festival, Brussels (2021), Silent Green Betonhalle, Berlin (2021); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2020); and Film at Lincoln Center, USA (2020). She lives and works between Palestine and the Netherlands. https://halabinas.com/WE-NO-LONGER-PREFER-MOUNTAINS Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:43:32 +0000 www.halabinas.com https://halabinas.com/WE-NO-LONGER-PREFER-MOUNTAINS WE NO LONGER PREFER MOUNTAINS &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; العودة إلى الوادي&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;(2023) &nbsp;WE NO LONGER PREFER MOUNTAINS takes place in the Druze town of Dalyet el Carmel, in northern Palestine, pulling the viewer into a surreal world of geographic isolation, shrouded mysticism and a locale shaped by co-optation, coercion, and control. Weaving together intimate engagements with members of the community, in shared domestic spaces and outdoor environments, the film sets out to explore how the inner politics of the Druze have been controlled and reshaped as a result of the establishment of Israel in 1948. The film is informed by the landscape theory (fûkeiron), a Japanese Avant Garde film movement in the 60s whereby the filmmakers posited that filming the everyday surroundings reveal the oppressive and repressively isolating landscapes and the powers at play. supported through Mophradat’s Consortium Commission 2020-2022&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; with additional support from Mondriaan Fonds and AFK &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; https://halabinas.com/HOPSCOTCH-THE-CENTRE-OF-THE-SUN-S-RADIANCE Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:43:32 +0000 www.halabinas.com https://halabinas.com/HOPSCOTCH-THE-CENTRE-OF-THE-SUN-S-RADIANCE HOPSCOTCH (THE CENTRE OF THE SUN’S RADIANCE) &nbsp; Hopscotch (The Centre of the Sun’s Radiance) takes listeners on a journey across two continents- Africa and Europe-&nbsp; to explore the ways in which histories of labour tied to the train’s development are embedded in the landscape. Through field recordings, oral histories and radio broadcasts, captured near the Shinkolobwe uranium mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a former UMHK-owned uranium refinery in Olen, Belgium, the project examines how the (colonial) past continues in the present, albeit under different guises.&nbsp; Borrowing the title of Julio Cortázar’s eponymous novel, Hopscotch shifts between chapters whose beginnings and ends are never the same, disrupting the notion of linear time that structures both historical and train-based narratives. ‘… We are going to make of the Congo the center of the sun’s radiance for all of Africa. We are going to keep watch over the lands of our country so that they truly profit her children.’ - &nbsp; Patrice Lubumba, Independence Speech of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 30 June 1960 5.1 sound installation / 2.5 hours looped Production: 2021 Stereo version available here : www.hopscotch.film <img width="8150" height="8150" width_o="8150" height_o="8150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43f44cc322b70b3aed031309ff0f184736c0625b683d6fa162142cce05e31435/HOPSCOTCH01-.jpg" data-mid="166326591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43f44cc322b70b3aed031309ff0f184736c0625b683d6fa162142cce05e31435/HOPSCOTCH01-.jpg" /> https://halabinas.com/WE-HAVE-ALWAYS-KNOWN-THE-WIND-S-DIRECTION Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:43:31 +0000 www.halabinas.com https://halabinas.com/WE-HAVE-ALWAYS-KNOWN-THE-WIND-S-DIRECTION We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction&nbsp; We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction has an outward subject and an inward one. Via a gear-shifting combination of conversation, interview and expressive location footage, it probes the possible burial of nuclear waste in the South of the West Bank. But as the footage cycles between fragmented conversations with a nuclear physicist and landscapes that are uneasily underscored by what we hear (and sometimes tinted an ill-omened red), another context emerges. In various ways, the delivery of information is thwarted, withheld, or delayed , and the film comes to turn on issues of representation and conveyance. The isotope Cesium 137, invisible but deadly, could be seen as a synecdoche for a more ungraspable invisibility – the systemic networks of power and control in the region – and this work as a meditation on how to account for the un-filmable but inexorable. video installation / 11:57 min, 2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2200" height="1213" width_o="2200" height_o="1213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abd0cd049dcae0ef8bb518495f4eaf2eeb0ed13095511e5b01bb899476ce1b9c/04.jpg" data-mid="166322069" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abd0cd049dcae0ef8bb518495f4eaf2eeb0ed13095511e5b01bb899476ce1b9c/04.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="1312" width_o="2400" height_o="1312" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e20e2e6bfc1acb3a6f631c8ee85a085d7259704ecb4be8ae3fd0620b229bd4b/02.jpg" data-mid="166326873" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e20e2e6bfc1acb3a6f631c8ee85a085d7259704ecb4be8ae3fd0620b229bd4b/02.jpg" /> <img width="2200" height="1206" width_o="2200" height_o="1206" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65d227781a4f6e32aa5905f5a0fa34b89b7ff40f12652323700b19d4df5677ca/03.jpg" data-mid="166322071" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65d227781a4f6e32aa5905f5a0fa34b89b7ff40f12652323700b19d4df5677ca/03.jpg" /> https://halabinas.com/LIKE-A-STRING-OF-BEADS Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:43:32 +0000 www.halabinas.com https://halabinas.com/LIKE-A-STRING-OF-BEADS LIKE A STRING OF BEADS Like a String of Beads focuses on the family story of nine siblings – aged between their 50s and 70s – in the village of Ibillin, northern Palestine, who were given animal names by their mother and who seem to have been protected by them: her previous six children died. Unpacking their histories, the film veers between collective agreement and divergence on what has happened to them. Carefully paced, it traces the rhythms of daily life in the household, the private accommodations of living and, more largely, survival, and traces magical or mythological aspects of the quotidian. The filming, meanwhile, moves between evoking intimacy and maintaining a respectful distance. video installation / 27 min Production: 2021 <img width="2200" height="1667" width_o="2200" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35dca123e743bb6e74dc0c3726788c065867a5842e96c1dec3f7388e802f75f4/4-1.jpg" data-mid="166326755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35dca123e743bb6e74dc0c3726788c065867a5842e96c1dec3f7388e802f75f4/4-1.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="449" width_o="800" height_o="449" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46534d93a574fd417d2ad0c1504d4c8a0bcf06bb973deda72e73d6657c767cd2/LIKE-A-STRING-OF-BEADS-2.png" data-mid="166326754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/46534d93a574fd417d2ad0c1504d4c8a0bcf06bb973deda72e73d6657c767cd2/LIKE-A-STRING-OF-BEADS-2.png" /> <img width="800" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8436d9649e3a61888ff80d5f5322a25051abd3d2fccedfb3a18cc05f73bf0b90/LIKE-A-STRING-OF-BEADS-1.png" data-mid="166326753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/8436d9649e3a61888ff80d5f5322a25051abd3d2fccedfb3a18cc05f73bf0b90/LIKE-A-STRING-OF-BEADS-1.png" /> https://halabinas.com/MNEMOSYNE Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:43:32 +0000 www.halabinas.com https://halabinas.com/MNEMOSYNE MNEMOSYNE The title of the work is borrowed from the Titan goddess of memory and the ‘inventress of language and words.’ The starting point for the project is a scar on the forehead of the artist’s grandfather. The scar was a result of a bullet shot in his direction by an Israeli soldier in the late 1940’s. Focusing on the sagas of myth and the construction of memory, members of the same family are filmed individually as they narrate their version of the same event. By scratching the surface of family history, the project explores the scar as a foundational hinge that arranges reality. The project also considers how one can play the role of a historian when the primary source is no longer there. ‘We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten.’ As such, recollection becomes an act of transformation rather than reproduction. <img width="800" height="454" width_o="800" height_o="454" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a067958139884b98c8b4730704daf295dd179578445b21e1de97c8bd59ecf1f/Untranslatability-From-Palestine-to-Hungary_Mnemosyne-Video-Still_800.jpeg" data-mid="166332851" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/6a067958139884b98c8b4730704daf295dd179578445b21e1de97c8bd59ecf1f/Untranslatability-From-Palestine-to-Hungary_Mnemosyne-Video-Still_800.jpeg" /> video installation, commissioned for the Young Artist of the Year Award, AM Qattan Foundation Production: 2016-2017 <img width="800" height="1104" width_o="800" height_o="1104" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f817134669f13130dbff79cddc09a54a486380537274ead1eea17acdecb604b8/Inas-Halabi--Mnemosyne--still-image-from-project--2016-_800.jpeg" data-mid="166332843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/f817134669f13130dbff79cddc09a54a486380537274ead1eea17acdecb604b8/Inas-Halabi--Mnemosyne--still-image-from-project--2016-_800.jpeg" />