The Guardian: ‘It’s important to talk about these things’: exhibition highlights destroyed Middle Eastern heritage sites

Dana Awartani says Bristol show inspired by ‘dichotomy’ of some Gulf countries booming while Palestine ‘obliterated’.

image: Dana Awartani with Standing By the Ruins. The piece recreates an ancient bathhouse floor in Gaza believed to have been destroyed in Israeli attacks. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian.

Dana Awartani

Dana Awartani engages in critical and contemporary reinterpretations of the forms, techniques, concepts and spatial constructs that shape Middle Eastern culture.

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