Geografía de la Memoria / Memoria Colectiva

Brain. Territory. Body. Receptacle of collective memory.
Nakba: continuous extermination. 
Colonised body. Stolen territory. 
Memory, alive, crosses generations; indestructible. Persists. Reborn. 
Air planet. Valley of Nostalgia. The vineyard of the soul. The eye of the olive tree.
Patience… 
The territory contracts, the identity expands..., it clings to its deepest roots.

Samira Badran

Samira Badran is a Palestinian visual artist born in Libya. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cairo (1971-1976) and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (78-82). He lives in Martorelles, province of Barcelona. Within the Palestinian context under Israel's colonial occupation, Samira explores the multiple layers of oppression and structures of control as a continuum in her artistic trajectory; The notion of collective memory, the fragmentation of the body and the territory, and the different forms of restriction. Her work investigates a variety of artistic disciplines and techniques, such as ink drawing, painting, collage, photography, intervention on analogue photographs, installation and short film animation.

She has exhibited in institutions such as MACBA, CCCB, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the Al-Qattan Foundation and the Palestinian Museum (Ramallah), Darat al Funun (Amman), the WhiteBox Art Center (New York), the Sharjah Biennial, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.) or the Havana Biennial, among others.