On March 4, at 19:30 we are happy to invite you to an artist talk by Alaa Ghosheh, the first Fall 2019 (Inter)national artist-in-residence at #OnassisAiR.
Alaa Ghosheh will give a public talk about his artistic practice and research as part of the ongoing 2019/20 series of talks at #OnassisAiR focusing on artistic & curatorial research practices.

We establish memories by seeing and recognizing things even before we speak. This is influenced by what we know as our reality, but what if all that knowledge is changing based on the ways we interact with our world? Digitally speaking, at a certain point in time we don’t exist anymore yet the digital chain reaction we started is rolling in the background in the shape of binary raw data; zeros and ones waiting to be seen, evolving and creating a certain consciousness which is independent. According to John Berger, the purpose of images and visuals, as with most art, is to outlast us, so the result of its own evolution far away from us is rationale. Usually, when we look at an image it is with assumptions regarding the past, which is considered static. What I am producing has the same sense but without any assumptions, unless it is towards the future. I started this journey with a quote from George Didi-Huberman: “We need images to create history, especially in the age of photography and cinema, but we need imagination to re-see these images, and thus to re-think history." At this stage in my research, I’ve reached the following conclusion: we need to learn to adapt and share our imagination with the tools we have, if we don’t I’m terrified we might not bond with the echo of our future self.

Alaa Ghosheh is a visual artist based in Athens. He was born within the walls of the old city in Jerusalem thirty years ago, during the first Palestinian Intifada. Living under occupation, he witnessed countless acts of brutality, injustice, and inhumanity. From a young age he turned to his imagination and visual creativity to make sense of what was, for him, a senseless world. It seemed only natural that this would later turn into a passion for photography. Working as a photojournalist from Ramallah (Palestine), to Irbil (Iraq), Brooklyn and Αthens, his practice is marked by an ability to connect with diverse populations and cοmmunities representing the life in extraordinary circumstances. He received his BA in Media and Communications from Birzeit University (2010). He has worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jerusalem as a photographer and photo archivist. In 2015, he was an artist-in-residence at Villa Romana in Florence where he presented his solo show, titled “Long Distance Relationships".

IMPORTANT: Please note that the total capacity of the space is 45 people and attendance will be on a first-come, first-served basis!

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