17 November 2011 to 1 March 2012

The third edition of the Cities Exhibition
takes Nablus as its site of investigation. The artistic interventions included in
Between Ebal and Gerzim, the title of this exhibition, endeavour to respond to the city’s contemporary challenges by reconnecting current social practices with the historicity of the city’s geography and its collective memory. In this exhibition, art is not considered to be the reproduction of existing folkloric or contemporary aesthetics, as much as an intervention into the city’s socio-political domains. It represents the challenge of bringing back the collective experience of public space in an effort to disclose knowledge and reconstruct the significance of that which has been marginalised. Between
Ebal and Gerzim does not brand what is already known, nor does it replicate stereotypes of Nablus. Instead, it is an archaeology of knowledge on issues of change and transformation. It is also a way of bringing attention to the notion of pertinent contemporaneity in connection with social history.