Galleries in Paris

Khaled Jarrar considered as of one the most interesting new artist from the Middle East is a Palestinian artist born and currently living in Ramallah.Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art-Palestine with a BA in Visual Art in 2011.
He entered the world of photography in 2004, his first exhibition « At the Checkpoint” in 2007 has been placed in full view of the Israeli soldiers at Howarra & Qalandia checkpoint. He is selected for the Berlin Biennale of 2012.
For this exhibition at the Galerie Polaris, which will be his first one-man show in a gallery, four videos, photographs and an installation will be shown:
Passage is a dramatic video in which Palestinian men and women cross the wall between Jerusalem and the West bank through a clandestine tunnel.
In the second and “ ubuesque “ video, Wet Suit, we follow a man in a scuba-diving outfit in the streets of Ramallah. The video emphasizes the Ubuesque side of an individual who will not find a single drop of water in the city.
The installation Docile Soldier takes the relationship between the photographer and his subject to the extreme. In this case, the photographer is a Captain officer (Khaled Jarrar is himself a Captain of the Presidential Palestinian Guard) who takes close portraits of his unit, as they become soldiers. The video and the portraits are both displayed in the gallery.
The video I. Soldier is an observation of other soldiers from filmed from a roof as going through their daily exercises that have become a routine practice in their life. They are subjugated to a well-planned ideological process that aims to unite them intellectually and physically.
Extracts of the performance Live and Work in Palestine will also be shown such as The State of Palestine stamp project :
Khaled Jarrar compensates for the absence of a Palestinian State by designing both a passport stamp and a postal stamp with the “State of Palestine” symbol – a sun-bird . This symbolic project uses art in an open confrontation with reality, and asks the audience to participate in the experience, while passports are stamped with the new seal. Jarrar didn’t just take pictures of people with their stamped passports, but he also collects reports of their own experiences at the Israeli border through the project’s Facebook page.
Khaled Jarrar’s works unfolds in a series of questions that call for more questions.