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LAMIA ABUKHADRA

لمياء ابوخضرا



Works


Not the Sunrise
Oversensitivity
Afterimages
Free As Air
A warning of the emptiness to come
Sunrise in Wadi el-Hummus • Twelve to Sixteen Bodies
To destroy this house... death. An early death.
Mound Studies
limestone
HOW TO CREATE DEEP LONGING
As citrus shrivels it becomes stone
HOW TO SHRIVEL
Six copies of Al Shaab hung like flags
The House on the Hill
You Sat at the Fountain While You Stole the House on the Hill


Talks


JVE Participant Presentation II
I Am Sitting Here Having Visions
JVE Participant Presentation I



Texts


🍊Rear Window Palestine
🍊Palimpsests of Removal, of Violence, of Possibility
🍊Craving Mangoes and the Generative Space of Refusal
🍊Life Must Be Disrupted In Order To Be Revealed: The Recording As Record And The Hyper-Surveilled Entity Not Meant To Exist in “An Unusual Summer”
🍊The Silent Chorus of Limestone: Non-human Witnesses to Intimacy, Creation, and Destruction in Settler Colonialism
🍊Who Shall Give the Command to Spew Us Out?: On Systems of Loss-Creation and Shriveling
🍊Inserted Instead: Critical Fabulation and Alternative Narrative Creation in Palestinian and Arab Archival Art


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LAMIA ABUKHADRA

لمياء ابوخضرا

Six copies of Al Shaab
hung like flags











2019
Screen print on newsprint, newspaper sticks, flag pole brackets


During preliminary investigations into my family homes in Jaffa, I came across interviews with relatives Ibrahim and Kanaan Abukhadra and their Jewish tenant David in Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk. The book alleges that after Ibrahim’s departure from his central Jaffa home in 1948, David began storing ammunitions for the Irgun militia in the basement and regularly invited the Irgun’s leader, Menachem Begin, to tea. Begin, responsible for several atrocities perpetuated against Palestinian people, went on to become the prime minister of Israel.

Based on the newspaper Kanaan owned in Palestine pre-1948, Al Shaab, my printed version uses poetics, diagrams, drawings and a combination of real and fabricated interviews to investigate and respond to the events and betrayals that occurred in Jaffa. Texts and research materials referenced in the paper include The Revolt by Menachem Begin, Pity The Nation by Robert Fisk, At the Station of a Train Which Fell Off the Map by Mahmoud Darwish, and archival photographs of citrus and the city of Jaffa from The Library of Congress. Their installation as flags engages with newspapers as a form used for mass production and distribution of information and ideology.

Photography of installation by David Kern