Exhibition
The Map is Not the Territory
12 Jun 2015 – 25 Jul 2015
Event times
Tuesday – Friday 12–6pm, Saturday 12–4pm, and Wednesdays until 8pm
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 21 Chalton Street
- London
- NW1 1JD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Euston/Kings Cross St. Pancras
“The Map is Not the Territory”, looks at relationships and commonalities in Palestinian, Native American, and Irish experiences of invasion, occupation, and colonization – not as novelty or polemic, but as history and current events. To understand history is the first step toward peace.
About
Thirty-nine contemporary artists – most of them Palestinian, Native American, and Irish – explore the profound specific and unusual intersections between the three cultures with original paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, artist books, and films. They consider such topics as conflict, resistance, land, food, diaspora, identity, and persistence.
Participants include emerging, as well as internationally renowned artists, such as Jaune Quick-to-See Smith – member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation of Montana, whose work is featured in prestigious museum collections worldwide – Rita Duffy -- one of Ireland’s leading artists, whose work has appeared in, among others, London’s Tate Modern – and Hani Zurob – Paris-based Palestinian painter from Gaza Palestinian painter from Gaza, listed as one of The Huffington Post’s “10 international artists to watch in 2013.”
“The Map is Not the Territory” -- co-curated by Jennifer Heath and Dagmar Painter.
