Rula Halawani (born 1964) is a Palestinian photographer and educator who lives and works in Jerusalem.[1]
She was born in East Jerusalem and received a BA in photography from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in photographic studies from the University of Westminster.[2][3] Before turning to visual arts, she worked as a freelance photojournalist for a number of magazines and newspapers.[4] Halawani is director of the photography department at Birzeit University.[1] In 2016, she was given a residency fellowship at the Camargo Foundation, in Cassis.[2]
Halawani's photography is focused on Palestinian life and the political conflicts of the area.[1][5][6] Emmanuel d’Autreppe, writing for AWARE Women Artist, suggest Halawani's "first works reflect the weight of everyday life and the inequity of restrictions as well as the state of siege, its large-scale consequences and its media coverage, both local and international."[6] She documents experiences of Palestinians with checkpoints and X-ray scanning machines through projects such as The Wall (2005) and The Bride is Beautiful, But She is Married to Another Man (2016).[7][8] Halawani experiments with infrared filters and X-ray technology in her works to create effects of distortion.[9]
Her work has appeared in exhibitions in London, in Dubai, in Beirut, at the Khalid Shoman Foundation in Amman, at the Sharjah Biennial, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, at the Noorderlicht festival, in Rome, at Le Botanique in Brussels, at the Busan Biennale in South Korea and at the Arab World Institute in Paris.[1][2][4]
Collections
editHalawani's work is held in the following permanent collections:
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris[10]
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London[citation needed]
- British Museum, London[11]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[12]
- Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman[13]
- Nadour Collection, Germany[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Rula Halawani". World Press Photo. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Rula Halawani". Ayyam Gallery. Archived from the original on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ Bajaj, Kriti (16 February 2016). "Negation and nostalgia: Palestinian photographer Rula Halawani – interview". Art Radar Journal. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Rula Halawani". Nadour. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ Lynch, Elizabeth (31 May 2016). "She Who Tells a Story: Rula Halawani". Broad Strokes Blog. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Archived from the original on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ a b d’Autreppe, Emmanuel (2020). "Rula Halawani". AWARE Women artists. Translated from French by Clara Bouveresse. Archives of Women Artists. Archived from the original on 22 December 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Rula Halawani | Darat al Funun". daratalfunun.org. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ "Rula Halawani - The Camargo Foundation". camargofoundation.org. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ "Negation and nostalgia: Palestinian photographer Rula Halawani – interview | Art Radar". 2016-06-07. Archived from the original on 2016-06-07. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ "Rula Halawani". Centre Pompidou (in English and French). Archived from the original on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Photographic print". British Museum. Archived from the original on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Rula Halawani". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Archived from the original on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Rula Halawani". Darat al Funun | Khalid Shoman Foundation. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
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