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Excursion "The street is my studio" Photographs by Mahmoud Dabdoub
Organised by the Diversity Development Team
Venue: Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig Grimmaische Str. 6 04109 Leipzig The project Diversity Development invites to an Excursion to the exhibition «The street is my studio» and artist talk
The exhibition «The street is my studio» shows photographs by Mahmoud Dabdoub, who came from a Palestinian refugee camp to study art in the GDR in 1981. He studied photography at the HGB Leipzig from 1982 to 1987. With a keen eye and sense for detail, he captured everyday life under socialism - without clichés or romanticization. His 75 pictures from the 80s and 90s show humorous, touching and surprising quotidian moments. Dabdoub was also present with his camera at the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Personal documents such as his Lebanese passport and his HGB student ID complete the exhibition. In addition to conveying his artistic approach and practice, the exhibition tells above all a story of migration, new beginnings and a foreigner's view of everyday life in the GDR. It thus presents a special encounter with the GDR from the perspective of a Palestinian artist.
Registration: kervinsp@hgb-leipzig.de
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3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig
In Leipzig
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