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From the Ground to the Sky, 2010
Maj Hasager
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From the Ground to the Sky has been installed on the highest roof terrace of the Sakakini Cultural Centre, so it can be seen both from the street and the garden. The work resembles a commercial sign, an advertisement, but in this case the slogan is: from the ground to the sky, written in Arabic. It references a well-known saying in a Palestinian context: from the river to the sea – referring to the right to return to historic Palestine, the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the war in 1948 and the fact that people still after 62 years live as refugees in camps across the Middle East. The saying on the sign shifts the coordinates, from East to West, to from down to up, and questions the absurdity of ownership of both the underground and the airspace within the Palestinian territories, due to the occupation, and asks the viewer to consider what lies between the ground and the sky.
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Size : 3m x 45cm
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Material : Metal, paint .
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Location : Alhoash Gallery
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Date of work : 2010
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