Bashar Khalaf: The Field of Dreams

Two series of works, Junk Garden and Protective Shield, from the Ramallah-born artist. “The Field of Dreams is an exploration of formations of ‘steel’ in the public space from the perspective of the relationship between the self, the object, and the other” says the gallery. “It can be viewed as an interactive space with the fragile reality in which humanity lives.”

Khalaf’s dreaming energy gives steel junk – bulldozers, vehicles, surveillance cameras – an chance for self-reinvention; it confronts the machine with its own existence, giving it a tragic form and allowing it reposition itself over time. The garbage bins in Protective Shield were used during the First Intifada to block street and provide shelter from bullets ; in contrast, the colonial system used steel barrels filled with cement to seal off the entrances to villages and camps.

To 8 November.

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