Susanne Khalil Yusef : HALTE! Here Art Liberty There Equality

The political impact of the word refugee makes us forget that for those who are characterized as such, this is no longer a word, but a state of being. Refugee in the sense of “displaced in the own country”, this wording applies to a distressing percentage of 60% of the so far known refugees on a global scale. But to be displaced in your own country, you don’t even have to be a refugee. The exhibition HALTE! by curator Susanne Khalil Yusef does not interfere in this discussion, but starts the dialogue. Young Palestinian and Dutch artists who can identify with feeling of being displaced, from their own experience or through a personal motive, have been invited to reduce the charged theme of post-colonialism to a personal story. HALTE! shows artworks by Ala Albala, Alejandro Cerón, Ali Aldeek, Eliza Bordeaux, Lama Altakruri, Lydienne Albertoe, Malak Mattar, Marah Zouabi, Qais Assali and WONNE.