Sunday, January 16th | 16:00 - 17:00
Location: the Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic

Join the conversation with artist Bashar Khalaf as he discusses his commissioned artwork Live the Dream, now shown within the A People by the Sea exhibition.

Khalaf regularly observes the streets of Ramallah, and uses them in his practice, as in his series In Search for a Self-Portrait (2019) where he tackles commercial advertisements. He scrutinizes closely and with concern the commodification that dominates our visual memory and contributes to the destabilisation of young generations’ immediate memory.

About the Artist
Palestinian artist and visual arts educator, Bashar Khalaf was born in Rantis town (northwestern Ramallah) in 1991. He holds a BFA from Al-Quds University. Khalaf works and lives in Ramallah.  

Khalaf has produced several artworks over the course of years, among which are Al Hoash Auction (2015), Assassination (2018), and Near I Can’t See, and Far Away Right in Front of Me (2017). He also participated in several solo and group exhibitions, among which are: 2016 Shadow of the Shadows and 2018 Perceptual Immunity at Gallery One Ramallah, and his 2019 In Search for a Self- Portrait exhibition at Zawaya Gallery in Ramallah.
Khalaf won the “YAYA” Young Artist Competition Award (2014) awarded by the A. M. Qattan Foundation, the Ismail Shammout Award for Fine Arts (2015), and the Young Creators’ State Appreciation Award (2017).