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Prescription Time

An exhibition by Mohamed Jabaly and Jenny Andersen
Tromsø, Norway, May 2021

PRESCRIPTION TIME

To heal from a traumatic event requires a strong will to survive and overcome, a compassionate and caring community, a therapeutic process and time. For Jenny Andersen who survived the terrorist attack on Utøya in 2011, and Mohamed Jabaly, a Palestinian who has lived through three wars and experienced the violent attacks on Gaza, time and art has played an integral part in the process of healing.

In 2016, Small Projects hosted their exhibition “What it Feels Like”, the first public presentation of their project which focused on how it is to live with the trauma of war and terror. In this latest instalment, “Prescription Time”, they are asking whether there is any truth to the saying: “Time heals everything.
Jenny Andersen was born in Trondheim and presently based in Tromsø. She is a filmmaker and a graduate of the Norwegian School of Photography in Trondheim where she specialised in doc-photo. She was the recepient of the 2019 Sparebankstiftelsens (Sparebank foundation) talent stipend.

Mohamed Jabaly is a Palestinian filmmaker and artist from Gaza and presently based in Norway. His first feature documentary “Ambulance” has been screened in several important film festivals such as IDFA, Sheffield, and CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. He has won several awards including the “One World Media” as Best Feature Documentary, BAFTA, London (2017), and the BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award. He is also a graduate of the Moving Images from Nordland Film and Art College.

In Between Here & There

An art exhibition by Ali & Mohamed Jabaly
Tromsø, Norway, June 2019

IN BETWEEN HERE AND THERE

In the light of all the challenges and circumstances surrounding people and the siege imposed place, human, and the lack of freedom of movement between the inside and the outside world of Gaza. The art project is reflecting an image of the situation of young people towards life, by linking the personal space of the artist in the reality that he lives and reflect his internal state of absolute psychological and physical siege that he experiences and link it to the place. The main idea of our art project is to break the boundaries throughout the convergence of colors and image through the joint artistic production between the two artists’ brothers, and the mutual developing of the artworks remotely and by bringing the picture closer to reality.

The exhibition was opened at small-projects gallery on Friday, 21st June 2019 at 19:30.
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Ali Jabaly is a 26-years old Palestinian Artist from Gaza, he studied interior design, he is a professional painter specialized in portraits, fine art, illustration, and digital art painting. Through his art and using the human body to respond to the grayness of our Palestinian life, he has participated in many local, regional, and international exhibitions. Ali has experienced the many difficulties facing the realities of Gaza– His art is a color-filled response to the strength of the Palestinian face.
His recent exhibition in Gaza city “Dreamers among the rubble” was inside a destroyed building was bombed in the 2014 war, through his art and the mural paintings, he managed to bring life back inside the place.

Check some of Ali's work:
https://www.instagram.com/alijabaly/
https://www.behance.net/ArtAliJabaly
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Mohamed Jabaly (b. 1990) is a Palestinian filmmaker and artist from Gaza, he has been living and working as a film director in Norway since 2014.

Check some of Mohamed's work:
www.mohamedjabaly.com
www.ambulancegazafilm.com

Big thanks to Tvibit, NUFF, Tromsøfondet/Palestina and Small Projects

What it feels Like

An art exhibition by Mohamed Jabaly and Jenny Andersen

WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

An art exhibition by Mohamed Jabaly and Jenny Andersen.
Mohamed was born and raised in Gaza and have lived through three wars. Jenny is from Trondheim and lived through the attack on Utøya 22 july 2011.

We experienced different traumas in totally different parts of the world, done by different people for different reasons. In spite of that, we have shared some of the same reactions and feelings in the years after.

When words fail to explain how we feel, and we get trapped with our memories, we turn to art. Using photography, painting and video, we want to tell people about our personal reactions, thoughts and feelings after living through acts of war and terror.

Opening 02.02.2017 at 19:00, free entrence.
There will be refreshments and a musical preformance by Torje Hanssen.
Big thanks to Tvibit, Small Projects and Torje Hanssen

Arts workshop - summer class

So much fun in the four days of the summer class, I was teaching young-adults within general art as part of a workshop with the culture school (kulturskolen) summber 2016