L'Avenir du Nuage
L'Avenir du Nuage
In the exhibition "Ce que la Palestine apporte au Monde" at the Institut du Monde Arabe
In the heart of Gaza, at the Eltiqa Gallery, one of only two in the city, fourteen artists were invited by the Hawaf collective to participate in one of the first workshops of the Sahab Museum: The Cloud Workshop. From February to April 2023, visual artists, street artists, illustrators, video artists, born between 1990 and 2000, met to create the first work of this museum-in-the-making. The result is a collective canvas representing a panoramic view of the imaginary museum, inspired by the cloud drawn by Salman Nawati.
In order to think together about the museum of their dreams, they were then asked to choose a work of art, a memorial object, an everyday artifact... that they would like to donate to the museum. The proposed objects reflect an individual or collective history that breaks the hierarchies between minor and major arts and forms a strange collection, in the literal sense of the word: out of the ordinary, bizarre, unusual. These objects are scanned, digitized to be transported into digital space, and become accessible through the technique of augmented reality, which gives access to a more intimate vision of the creative process. In an interactive way, the visitor of the exhibition is invited to go and find, with the help of his smartphone, the objects hidden in the collective canvas.
L'Atelier du nuage seems to revisit the cabinet of curiosities, the ancestor of museums. Just like these places in which a multitude of heterogeneous objects were collected, L'Atelier du nuage reminds us of this "microcosm or summary of the world" according to the words of Krzysztof Pomian. Thus, at the time of the increasing confinement of this enclave under asphyxia, it is an artistic "abridgment of its universe" which wants to be without limits.
The collective canvas was sewn in Gaza, then sent to Jerusalem, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, then Leipzig before being sent to Paris. Postal services do not operate in Gaza.
Participating artists
Adam Al-Mghari (Gaza, 1989. Lives in Gaza)
Aboud Nasser (Gaza, 2000. Lives in Gaza)
Bayan Abu Nahla (Gaza, 2001. Lives in Gaza)
Amal Al-Nakhala (Gaza, 1999. Lives in Gaza)
Rawan Murad (Gaza, 1998. Lives in Gaza)
Sobhi Qouta (Gaza, 1990. Lives in Gaza)
Samar Sharaf (Kiev, 2004. Lives in Gaza)
Hamada Alkept (Gaza, 1994. Lives in Gaza)
Fouad Khater (Gaza, 1997. Lives in Gaza)
Hazem Alzomar (Gaza, 1989. Lives in Gaza)
Jehad Al-Ghoul (Gaza, 1992. Lives in Gaza)
Enas Rayyan (Gaza, 2003. Lives in Gaza)
Ahmed Abunada (Gaza, 1996. Lives in Gaza)
