Slidefest at Framer Framed: BredaPhoto x Gulf Photo Plus
Wednesday 9 September in Amsterdam
A Mind in the Past, Eyes on Tomorrow —
Fouad Hallak
Location: Framer Framed, Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, Amsterdam
Date: 9 September
Doors open: 6:30 PM
Start: 7 PM
Fee: Free/Pay as you can. Book your ticket here.
Please note: this event will be in English
Slidefest: BredaPhoto x Gulf Photo Plus x Framer Framed
BredaPhoto is coming to Amsterdam for a special one-evening event, hosted by our wonderful friends at Framer Framed.
Join us for Slidefest, an evening of artist presentations, with a focus on the SWANA region:
Fatima Joumaa — From My Mother’s Novel: returning to South Lebanon, Fatima weaves her images through her mother Layla’s old notebook, a meditation on grief, memory, and women as keepers of collective history.
Sadiq Al-Harasi — What Do Fathers Leave Behind?: an autoethnographic search for an absent father, built from family archives, photography, writing, and sound into an experimental landscape of memory.
Amera Elnaal — The Salt Ate Away Her Eyes: a tender document of her blind parents’ daily life in Tripoli, rooted in her childhood practice of narrating the world to them — stories in place of sight.
Noor Abed — we walk in our sleep: a film installation made with her community in Palestine, where language and choreography open a portal between the dead and the living. Noor will present film snippets and talk through her approach.
Çiğdem Yüksel — The Blossoming garden: Yüksel portrays the stories of Mohammed, Sultan, Lemia, Eda and Sema in a monumental tapestry in four parts. The five residents from the neighbourhood de Hoge Vucht in Breda, are pillars of support for their community.
Fouad Hallak — A Mind in the Past, Eyes on Tomorrow: after the Assad regime fell in December 2024, Fouad returned to Syria for the first time since fleeing in 2016 — photographs of streets and people he never expected to see again, holding fear and pain alongside something harder to name: hope.
Each artist presents for 7 minutes, followed by Q+A with the audience. The evening is co-presented by Mohamed Somji, co-curator of BredaPhoto, and Farah Silvana-Kanaan, writer, editor and curator.
Slidefest is an event run by Gulf Photo Plus, a Dubai-based photography space that has been staging it around the world for over 15 years. This edition is supported by Framer Framed, Prince Claus Fund and Gulf Photo Plus.
Noor Abed we walk in our sleep
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