‘Abwab’ Exhibition

“Behind every closed door, there is a life being lived, an untold story of which the details are left to the imagination of the observer.

Fascination for doors, old doors, has led me to capture over a hundred doors from various parts of the world, some of which are exhibited here today and some of which no longer exist. Some of the exhibited photos were taken with film camera before moving to digital. Even though my photographed subjects are of still images, it is beyond these closed doors that lives were lived, conversations were held and feelings were shared.

Why Doors?
My parents, like thousands of Palestinians were forced to leave their homes in 1948, taking nothing or little of their belongings except their keys. “We still have the keys to our houses” a phrase that I heard repeatedly from relatives and parent’s friends while narrating the dire stories of their exodus….To them, the door keys became an evidence of their belonging, a symbol of hope to return to their homeland; to me, it became a source of imagination, a birth of a million questions of what might have, could have been if those keys could still open these doors…. Thus my fascination for doors. Each door has a character; some invite you to knock, others deserted, but the worst are those to which you have the keys but cannot open.”

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