Yet Unborn Realities: Imprints of Possibility in Khaled Jarrar’s ‘State of Palestine’ Stamp

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Abstract

The scope of this paper is to inquire into a moment of friction between reality and possibility; the present and the future; the actual and the fictional, in a context pertaining to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The point of departure is an artwork by the Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar. My encounter with his work evoked an aesthetic experience of hesitant uncertainty parallel to particular encounters with a mechanism invoking such uncertainties in real life, namely the passport control
Original languageEnglish
JournalParagrana
Volume25
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)125-134
Number of pages10
ISSN0938-0116
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2016
Externally publishedYes

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