Akram Zaatari
AKRAM ZAATARI
three snapshots and a long exposure
April 27 – August 27, 2022
hamburg
Un-dividing History, 2017
Un-dividing History, 2017 enfolds the photographs of Khalil Raad and Yaakov Ben Dov, fusing them into single objects made by two photographers who shared the same city, Jerusalem, but who navigated completely different universes, one Arab and the other Zionist.
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Akram Zaatari, Un-Dividing History, 2017, 4 pairs of glass plates and 8 cyanotype contact-prints, 18 x 24 cm each
Photographic Currency, 2019
Photographic Currency, 2019, presented in the window of the new ground floor space of the gallery, is based on dozens of images of traditional quilts made in Saida, South Lebanon, gathered over the years by Zaatari whenever he encountered them in the archive of photographer Hashem el Madani. These had been taken in the 1950s and functioned as a loose catalog for quiltmakers, allowing them to keep records of designs and stitch patterns, to show to potential clients. Zaatari considers those photos as the external memory of quiltmakers, thus not really end products in themselves. They are used here as currency towards objects (quilts) remakes.
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