Shereen Abedalkareem (PSE) The Face of the City
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
Multimedia installation
May 3rd – 11th
Mon. – Fri. ore 17:00 > 21:00
Sat. Sun. h. 15:00 > 21:00
Fabbrica del Vapore
Atelier Cisterne
«Bringing an image to life is the best way to combat oblivion: the sounds captured form a memory of the place, allowing the viewer to navigate through time and space.» Shereen Abedalkareem
Through sound archives, visual manipulations and the layering of photographs and videos, Abedalkareem portrays Gaza as a lived-in, experienced and shared space: a city made up of everyday gestures, voices and human relationships, freed from the exclusive lens of war imagery. The work, which combines architecture, visual arts, and filmmaking, constructs a sensory experience of the city as a place of coexistence: tangible, multifaceted, and irreducible to its destruction.
The programme includes an immersive exhibition accompanied by a public programme of lecture-performances, reading groups and screenings, which will take place throughout the festival.
► The opening on May 3rd will feature a live link-up with the artist.
► On May 11th, to mark the closing, there will be a reading organised by the Biennial course of Visual Cultures and curatorial practices at the Accademia di Brera.
The Face of the City is part of the project Grandi Sogni (Ahlam) — Contemporary Cultures from Palestine to Milan, curated by Yasmin Aljarba and promoted by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in collaboration with BASE Milano, Casa degli Artisti, and LIFE Festival.
The program includes a series of exhibitions, lecture-performances, and screenings dedicated to contemporary Palestinian visual and material cultures, aiming to activate a practice of individual and collective memory within the context of global geopolitics.
JERUS-IT-ARTS Project Between Italy and Jerusalem: Retracing Networks of Music and the Arts, Enhancing Education and Promoting the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (PNRR, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera)
A project curated by Yasmin Aljarba and organised in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
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Suitable for all ages.
Event accessible to persons with reduced mobility.
Sheeren Abedalkareem is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist whose work combines architecture, visual arts and filmmaking to explore social issues through spatial and visual representation. Graduated in Architecture from the Islamic University of Gaza (2019) and in Graphic Design (2020), she develops projects that combine painting, sculpture, installations and virtual reality, constructing immersive conceptual spaces where materials, memory and media intertwine. Her artistic practice explores lived memory and the reconstruction of imagined events and places, blurring the boundaries between reality and artistic interpretation to stimulate dialogue on identity, placeand human experience. Shereen has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Gaza, Oslo, Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid and Tarragona; her works have been exhibited in prestigious institutions such as the Reina Sofía Museum. Her acknowledgments include the SAMAEHL Grant at UKS (2025) and selection for Talent Latent Scan (2024). Her research combines art, architecture and new technologies to tell social and human stories through an immersive and poetic approach.
Yasmine Al Jarba is a Palestinian visual artist and curator, born in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and currently based in Milan. She has taken part in numerous local exhibitions in Gaza and Italy, as well as international exhibitions. She holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Art Markets from NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, having broadened her artistic practice and directed it towards visual research based on the personal and collective experience of the Palestinian people, marked by conflict and the humanitarian crisis in her homeland. His interdisciplinary practice encompasses oil and acrylic painting, muralism, conceptual photography and video art, with an approach of continuous self-learning. Al Jarba’s work explores memory, trauma, identity and uprooting, visually documenting the Palestinian experience both within and outside Gaza and investigating the presence and absence of the body and the land. Through abstraction, installations and time-based media, her art becomes a tool for cultural resistance, historical memory and resilience, transforming experiences of political violence and historical continuity into powerful visual narratives.
