Mona Hatoum & Jane Frere Exhibition @ Darat al Funun, October 11th

Start Time: Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 6:00pm
End Time: Monday, November 10, 2008 at 7:00pm
Location:Jabal al Weibdeh
Street:Nadim Mallah
City/Town: Amman, Jordan

Mona Hatoum
Main Building

The exhibition will include works produced by Hatoum in Amman, in cooperation with local craftsmen, as well as works from the Khalid Shoman Private Collection, among others. Of Palestinian origin, Mona Hatoum is an internationally recognized artist known for her performances and video works of the 1980s and for her large-scale installations and sculptures which turn the familiar into uncanny situations that capture the experience of permanent exile.

RETURN of the souls: the Nakbah Project
By Scottish artist Jane Frere
Blue House

Three thousand Palestinian figurines, each representing a Palestinian refugee will go on display at The Khalid Shoman Foundation – Darat al Funun starting October 11th. This extraordinary work – known as Return of Souls — is part of an international artistic project exploring and documenting the history of Palestine during the late 1940’s.The process of production was through young Palestinian artists, trained by artist Jane Frere who then conducted a series of educational workshops in refugee camps, in Palestine and the region