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Moving Towards Home Exhibition Catalog

Exhibition Catalog: Moving towards Home: Art for Palestine in NYC 1989 & 2024
Curated by Jenna Hamed & Amy KahngExhibition Catalog: Moving towards Home: Art for Palestine in NYC 1989 & 2024
Curated by Jenna Hamed & Amy KahngThis document contains all the original research documentation featured in the exhibition, Moving towards Home (April 30-May 21, 2024), into a “book” by co-curator Jenna Hamed. It includes info about the contemporary works curated into the show, in addition to pages and pages of the cited articles on the contemporary (and incomplete) history of Palestinian art and solidarity exhibitions in NYC since the 1980’s, the cultural boycott movement, a contextual 3-part essay by co-curator Amy Kahng, the review by Diana Seohyung, bootlegged archival material from the Museum archives (because it’s not theirs to begin with), listings of the foundational books, catalogues and publications we referenced, and much much more.

2024

Moving towards Home: Art for Palestine in New York City in 1989 & 2024, was an exhibition presented at SUBTITLED NYC from April 30 through May 21, 2024, co-curated by Jenna Hamed and Amy Kahng.

Responding to the 1989 exhibition Homeland: A Palestinian Quest curated by Yong Soon Min and Shirin Neshat, Moving Towards Home historicizes and critically reinterprets the original exhibition, selecting a roster artworks and ephemera from the curators and artists featured in the original show as well as a new selection of Palestinian artists who live or have worked in NYC. In this moment of record-breaking global uprisings in response to the ongoing genocide and destruction in Gaza, Moving towards Home draws connections between the historic solidarity building amongst artists during the First Intifada and the ongoing efforts today to build a cultural front for Palestinian liberation.

Featured artists include Min, Neshat, and Betty Kano, representing original Homeland participants, as well as Kamal Boullata, Haifa Bint Kadi (@haifabintkadi), Fares Rizk (@faressrizk), and Xaytun Ennasr (@fallahipunk).

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