Sager Al-Qatil
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This year’s Ramallah Art Fair is titled “Narratives Under Occupation.” It brings together 42 artists from Palestine and the Golan Heights who explore “contemporary themes of displacement, loss, identity, memory, and the daily realities under oppression, while also presenting artworks that envision a future without occupation,” according to the show catalogue. The fair is divided into two sections: Contemporary and Rare. This piece is from the latter section. Its self-taught creator, who died in 2004 aged 45, was one of the first members of the League of Palestinian Artists. His surrealist work, the catalogue states, “is often described as uncanny, depicting trauma and adverse experiences, relying on fantasy and freedom from the constraints of content and form.” It adds that Al-Qatil, who was born in Al-Amari Refugee Camp in Ramallah and was raised in another camp in Gaza, “spent much of his life seeking to break away from the burden of dispossession and trauma experienced by his family and community.”
Inass Yassin
