Art Metropole

#16344

Tarweedeh

ka TAWLA

Date

2023

Publisher

aka TAWLA

Format

Zines

Size

220 × 150 cm

Length

68 pp

Genre

Activism, Photography, Contemporary Art, SWANA Art & Artists

Description

“Tarweedeh:” An encrypted style of Palestinian folk song used to help families communicate across occupier prisons. This type of folk song was first developed during British colonization of Palestine and continued after the Nakba in 1948.

The zine was produced and published in 2023 by aka TAWLA: a collaboration between photographers Rehab Eldalil and Abdo Shanan. They are a collective of photobook makers from the SWANA region, supporting photobook making and advocating for alternative narratives. The first edition features nine Palestinian photographers.

All zine proceeds go directly back to Tarweedeh’s contributing artists: Maen Hammad, Randa Shaath, Samar abu Elouf, Nidal Rohmi, Tanya Habjouqa, Samar Hazboun, Ameen Abo Kaseem, Lina Khalid, and Nadia Bseiso.

The featured works are being exhibited as a part of TPW’s exhibition, Never One Thing Alone, co-curated by Liz Ikiriko and Jaclyn Quaresma. The exhibition runs from April 9th to May 31st, 2025, at Gallery TPW as part of Images Festival.

Never One Thing Alone considers intricate networks of solidarity and connection, movements of resistance, and collective action alongside the work of aka TAWLA, Dana Qaddah, Joyce Joumaa, and Sharlene Bamboat. Never One Thing Alone charts the artists’ intersecting networks, which serve to strengthen one another, sometimes across borders. Finding solidarity even in the most difficult circumstances, these artists—from Cairo, Beirut, Khartoum, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto—are forging their own shadow paths through and against systems of colonial and capitalist extraction.

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