Huda Salha
Not the Archive
Sculpture
2020
Bronze, Aluminium, Iron
Dimensions Variable
The Palestinian Archive- Looted and Hidden
“Colonizers have used an assortment of elimination strategies besides expelling, imprisoning and ethnic cleansing. The destruction and disappearance of archives and remnants of cultural heritage have long been an insidious means of erasing Indigenous people from the historical narrative. I argue that building and preserving the archive is one important tool towards claiming collective memory, as well as countering the colonial narrative and the systemic attempts at effacement. ”
Work by
Huda Salha
Interdisciplinary
“After the Last Frontiers: My work addresses issues of identity, displacement, and memory. Identity and memory are interwoven with place through political and cultural boundaries. As a descendant of a...” [More]