Free from the stretcher, 2000 - ongoing

By 2000, Halaby revisists the function of the picture plane, and challenges its boundaries from within. She began to develop a series of hanging sculptures using papier-mâché. These were inspired by the workshops she conducted at Birzeit University in 1995, during which she taught students how to use the medium. The result was a work that occupied different spatial planes and was released from the confines of two-dimensional walls.

In Memory of Sheila Marbain, 2010, Papier-mâché, rice paste and acrylic, 61 x 71 x 45 cm