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Olives for Peace

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Jamelie Hassan presents video footage of a young child, her great-niece, outside eating olives. Images of ceramic tiles from the director's series "Palestine’s Children" (1990) are montaged into the video. The tiles are based on paintings by Salwa al Sawalhy, whose work records her daily life in the Rafah Refugee Camp in Gaza. The two artists engage in an artistic dialogue that responds to a particular context – life as seen by a Palestinian child.