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“Wa Habibi” by Carole Alfarah, in Toledo
From January 31, 2019 until March 01, 2019Mondays to Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Saturdays from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m. Closed on Sundays and holidays.
TOLEDO
San Clemente Cultural Center (address: Plaza de Padilla, 2) .
Mondays to Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Saturdays from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m. Closed on Sundays and holidays.
Free entry.
The exhibit, organized by Casa Árabe and curated by María Santoyo, can
be seen at the San Clemente Cultural Center in Toledo from January 31
through March 1.
Casa Árabe is presenting the exhibition “Wa Habibi: Syria, 2012-2015” with photographs by Carole Alfarah at the San Clemente Cultura Center in Toledo. The show could already be seen at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid and Córdoba, as well as the Casa Elizalde Cultural Center in Barcelona with the cooperation of IEMed and the Fundación Tres Culturas in Seville.
This exhibition in Toledo brings the traveling exhibition series curated by María Santoyo to an end. It presented a selection of photographic images by Syrian photographer Carole Alfarah, taken from 2012 to 2015 on several trips to the country which the artist was forced to leave behind. None of these photographs shows the different sides in the war, the weapons, violence or exile; they simply show, with a sensitivity beyond normal, a human condition altered in times of conflict, silent and tenacious.
Since the beginning of her career, Carole Alfarah (Damascus, 1981) has used her camera to help people and groups that have been silenced, giving them some sort of voice and acknowledgment through images. When the conflict broke out in Syria, she kept her lens focused on civil society, consciously fleeing from iconography, archetypes and the canonical objectivity of the war reporter.
This exhibition in Toledo brings the traveling exhibition series curated by María Santoyo to an end. It presented a selection of photographic images by Syrian photographer Carole Alfarah, taken from 2012 to 2015 on several trips to the country which the artist was forced to leave behind. None of these photographs shows the different sides in the war, the weapons, violence or exile; they simply show, with a sensitivity beyond normal, a human condition altered in times of conflict, silent and tenacious.
Since the beginning of her career, Carole Alfarah (Damascus, 1981) has used her camera to help people and groups that have been silenced, giving them some sort of voice and acknowledgment through images. When the conflict broke out in Syria, she kept her lens focused on civil society, consciously fleeing from iconography, archetypes and the canonical objectivity of the war reporter.
