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Bashar Al Hroub<br />
“The Other IS Me”<br />
‘the foreigner lives within us: he is the hidden face <strong>of</strong> our identity, the space that wrecks<br />
our abode, the time in which understanding and anity ounder.’ The ‘foreigner’ then is<br />
something hidden in ourselves, something with the potential to destroy ‘home’ and something<br />
that is beyond ‘understanding’ or relations with each other<br />
Biography<br />
born 1978 in Jerusalem. He grew up in the West Bank in the village Kharas near Hebron.<br />
In 2001 he got his BA in Fine Art from An-Najah National University - Palestine. In 2009, he<br />
was awarded a fellowship from FORD Foundation to pursue an MFA, 2010 he got his MFA<br />
from Winchester School <strong>of</strong> Art - University <strong>of</strong> Southampton. He is lecturing in <strong>Visu</strong>al Art.<br />
Since then he has been living in Ramallah.<br />
His work has developed from paintings, Photography, Video, Installation and mixed media,<br />
and has directly dealt with the polemics <strong>of</strong> a place, how to humanize it and its inuence on<br />
his creativity. He asserts his identity as essentially part <strong>of</strong> and perhaps outsider <strong>of</strong> those<br />
places. We all want to feel that we belong to a social and cultural community, constantly<br />
longing for a feeling <strong>of</strong> attachment, rooted in a particular place with a sense <strong>of</strong> signicant<br />
ownership <strong>of</strong> that place. His work is deeply inuenced by these socio-political sentiments.<br />
Questions such as “who we are?” <strong>of</strong>ten intimately related to questions <strong>of</strong> where we are, so<br />
inextricably bound to dening our location in relation to self and other.<br />
Solo Exhibitions include “Reective Consciousness” at Mosaic Room gallery in London<br />
2010, “ The Other Is Me” Winchester School <strong>of</strong> Art in Winchester- UK in 2010, «Monologue»<br />
at the Almahatta Gallery in Ramallah which then traveled to Jerusalem, Nablus and Nazareth in 2009. He has other exhibitions.<br />
Alhroub participated in several group exhibitions, projects and festivals throughout Palestine and abroad including the UAE, Lebanon, Morocco,<br />
France, Oman, Algeria, Syria, Poland, Japan, France, Scotland, Norway, USA, and the UK. He took part in several Triangle Arts International Artists<br />
workshops, Shatana, Jordan with Makan Artist Space, Braziers Workshop in the UK, and was a founder and participant <strong>of</strong> the rst ever International<br />
workshop in Palestine hosted by Almahatta Gallery.<br />
e-mail address: basharhroob@gmail.com
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