黑料不打烊

Following the 2023 theme exploring archives, five selected artists took up residency at The Lab under the mentorship of artist Raed Ibrahim, where they delved into personal and nonpersonal family archives in an attempt to develop visual narratives of lost and undiscovered memories, memoirs, and testimonies.

This exhibition, curated by Raed Ibrahim, presents works by the artists, which include various projects. Amany Adel shares a reflection on the visual history of weddings from the beginning of the 20th century, while Arzaq Abu Eid attempts to create an inclusive narrative for the Palestinians who left Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion, based on her research and collected testimonies of family relatives. Zina Ghoul retraces the steps of her late grandfather, a photography enthusiast, upon his return to Amman, in an effort to find and assemble the missing pieces leading to his passing. Aya Abu Ghazaleh redocuments her family's temporary stops between refugee camps and houses. Meanwhile, Maria Khorzom investigates the emotional layers hidden in the archives of voice messages exchanged between family members, and launches an online platform at the exhibition opening.

The participating works play on the duality of the personal and the collective, private and public, hidden and declared, temporary and permanent, present and absent, told and untold. They also explore, each in its own way, narratives that transcend family boundaries and the shared story in a process of re-reading personal histories in the contexts of exhibition and public spaces.