Salman Nawati
Wednesday 27 November 2024
7pm

Floating in the sky, free from walls, a museum breaking out of isolation, in the form of a cloud from which it takes its name, a shape that came as proof of Gaza’s rich history. Sahab Museum is a virtual space and platform designed to convey Gaza’s past, present, and future. A place of transmission of artistic memory, history, and heritage, to overcome marginalization. It is shaped around virtual reality and technologies to allow all visitors from Palestine and the entire world to walk through it, from wherever they are based.

Sahab Museum was founded by the Hawaf collective (Hawaf means edges in the Arabic language) around the idea of rebuilding a community by building a museum. Hawaf collective emerged in 2021 and consists of six members. The founding members Mohamed Abusal (visual artist, Gaza), Mohamed Bourouissa (visual artist, Paris), Sondos Al-Nakhala (architect, Gaza), and Salman Nawati (visual artist, Sweden). In 2022, Andres Burbano (visual artist, Paris) and Marion Slitine (researcher and anthropologist, Marseille) joined Hawaf.

The talk will be held in English.

Metod is an ongoing series of talks about working methods within the field of contemporary art and culture.