Noor Abuarafeh

video, Literary, installation, photographs, movie, Decolonization, Artistic research, Archives

Noor Abuarafeh (1986) is an artist who works in and out of Palestine, and is currently based in Rotterdam. She recently finished a one-year residency program at the JVE Academy. Noor works primarily with video installation, performance, publication, and text. Her work addresses memory, history, the archive, the possibilities of tracing absence, the rethinking of different forms of history representations, and also questions the complexity of history including how it is shaped, constructed, made, perceived, visualized and understood, and how it is related to fact, fiction and imagination.

**Am I The Ageless Object at The Museum** - Am I the Ageless Object at the Museum? Video Installation 2017 This film is based on a narrative developed through visits to various zoos and zoological institutions in Palestine, Switzerland, and Egypt. It is part of a larger body of work that explores the concepts of the museum, memory and representations from different perspectives. The film delves into the construction of zoos and their historical relationship with museums, as well as the connections between museums and cemeteries. It highlights through the poetic language of the narrator; how these institutions reflect representations of power and colonialism. Zoos, museums, and cemeteries share a common relationship with death, preservation, and classification. Zoos, like museums and cemeteries, are sites where living beings or historical artifacts are contained, classified, and displayed for public viewing. The act of capturing and exhibiting life (in the case of zoos) or objects of historical significance (in museums and cemeteries) echoes colonial practices of control and domination, where the act of preserving or showcasing is intertwined with the power to determine what is worth remembering and what is marginalized or erased.

**The Moon is a Sun Returning as a Ghost** - The film is based on a research that follows cases of seventeen exhibitions by Palestinian artists, each contained different artworks and exhibited in different countries around the world, the majority of which are considered missing today. The Moon is a Sun Returning as a Ghost follows one of these cases, an exhibition that took place in 2005 in the swiss town of Martigny, the works could not be returned to the artists and were instead moved from a country to another and from one storage facility to another. The video questions how the immateriality of missing objects affects our memory of them, especially in a colonized context where the materiality of the object is constantly in danger of being manipulated, boomed or stolen . The work shows that by poetically liberating historiography from its objecthood, more narratives can emerge that extend beyond the materiality of the object in which it is transmitted orally.

Ways of Remembering

Date: 02-01-2023 t/m 30-04-2023

Location: Yapi Kredi Cultural Centeer

In association with: Yapi Kredi Cultural Centeer

Two solo presentations by Noor Abuarafeh and Sena Basoz

https://bi-ozet.com/2023/01/04/yapi-kredi-kultur-sanattan-yeni-sergi-dizisi-bir-arada/

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