Artist's Statement: Emily Jacir's "ENTRY DENIED", Alberto Peola Gallery, February 2007

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6476.shtml
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Excerpt from the Press Release / Emily Jacir statement:
"The photo series (2003 - 2006) in ENTRY DENIED captures fleeting moments of fragmented lives. I focused on instants where I found both the presence and absence of these missing Palestinians: abandoned projects and buildings, places waiting for their return, houses standing empty, a landscape frozen in time. I also tried to photograph the spaces in between all the destruction wrought by the Israeli occupation. I found myself searching for hope, or a feeling of freedom in the landscape or sky. It was my attempt at a refusal to document our own destruction and the slow death of our land and our people."

Emily Jacir

Alberto Peola Gallery, Torino, Italia
http://www.albertopeola.com/