Fazal Sheikh “Independence

Fazal Sheikh “Independence | Nakba”

Pace MacGill

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Pace/MacGill Gallery presents Fazal Sheikh: Independence | Nakba . The featured works comprise the third project in the artist’s multi - volume set of photographs, The Era sure Trilogy , which explores the ongoing Israeli - Palestinian conflict. The exhibition is part of an international presentation of Fazal Sheikh’s work across six venues: the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; the Al - Ma’mal Center for Contemporary Art, East Jerusalem; and the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah.

Since his first visit to Israel and the West Bank at the invitation of Frédéric Brenner for the This Place initiative in late 2010, Sheikh has addressed the legacies of the Arab - Israeli War of 1948 in a s eries of photographic projects, collectively called The Erasure Trilogy , which seek to render visible the enduring effects of this pivotal historical event. Independence | Nakba is the trilogy’s ultimate body of work, presenting 65 diptychs – one for each year between 1948 and 2013 – that juxtapose black - and - white portraits of individuals of gradually increasing age from both sides of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. The visual dichotomy of the portraits speaks to the politics of separation inextricably tied to the Arab - Israeli War, which resulted in the establishment of the State of Israel, the reconfiguration of the region’s territorial borders, and the displacement of an estimated 700,000 Palestinians. Celebrated annually as Independence Day by Israel is, the event is commemorated by Palestinians as the Nakba or day of catastrophe