(13 Nov 2024)
JORDAN ART GAZA CHILDREN
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Amman, Jordan – 10 November 2024
1. Various of visitors checking art at exhibition called, "A Painting of Joy"
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Lina al-Zoobi, organizer of art show:
"The exhibition, ‘A Painting of Joy’ is a show whose goal is both humanitarian and artistic at the same time. Of course, the proceeds of this show are going into donations for our brothers in Gaza."
3. Artwork on display
4. Various of freed Palestinian prisoner Israa Jaabis who took part in the exhibition
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Israa Jaabis, freed Palestinian prisoner and participant in exhibition:
"Without hesitation, I participated with my paintings like other artists. What does this participation mean to me? I was once a Palestinian child like any Palestinian child, I needed others to stand with me. Just like when I was in prison, I needed people to stand in solidarity with me, with my cause and with my conditions."
6. Various of Jaabis’ paintings on display
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Israa Jaabis, freed Palestinian prisoner and participant in exhibition:
"Participating in the art of resistance is enough on its own because it’s one of my most beloved and most beautiful art forms, which expresses our cause and expresses the violated human condition that we live in. It expresses everything that we love and cling to, everything symbolic of Palestine that we hold onto."
8. Jaabis’ paintings on display
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Israa Jaabis, freed Palestinian prisoner and participant in exhibition:
“My painting expresses my state of being – as someone who is in pain. The trees of Ajloun, the trees of Jerash (are shown in the paintings). One painting depicts the Palestinian woman who smells the odors of toxic materials, which causes harm to the baby inside her body. And there is also a painting depicting the wall of Al-Aqsa and the map of Palestine.”
10. Various of artwork on display
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Lina al-Zoobi, organizer of the fine arts exhibition:
"Each of the artists had a point of view on Gaza. Some of the paintings depicted the suffering of the people of Gaza in the war, and some of them depicted our suffering as an Arab people and how we see the tragedy through our own eyes."
12. Artwork on display and traditional Palestinian women’s dresses
13. Traditional Palestinian women’s dresses
STORYLINE:
Artists from Jordan and several Arab countries used their paintbrushes and their imagination to turn blank canvases into scenes symbolic of the Palestinians’ struggle.
The paintings went on display at a weeklong art show organized in the Jordanian capital of Amman to support the children of the war-battered Gaza Strip.
The show of solidarity with the Palestinians came after more than a year of devastating war in the besieged territory of Gaza.
One painting showed a building engulfed by an explosion and another depicted birds peacefully sitting on tree branches, with the silhouettes of mosque and other buildings in background.
The goal of the exhibition "is both humanitarian and artistic," said organizer Lina al-Zoobi who added that the proceeds from the art sales will be donated to the Palestinians in Gaza.
Painters from Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Kuwait and Egypt contributed to the show alongside Palestinian artists.
"I was once a Palestinian child like any Palestinian child, I needed others to stand with me," she said.
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