Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to announce the addition of Yazan Khalili to its growing roster. Khalili was born in 1981 and lives and works in and out of Palestine. He received a degree in Architecture from Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine in 2003, graduating in 2010 with a Master’s degree from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Khalili completed residencies at the Delfina Foundation, London, UK, in 2008 and the National Film School of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark in 2006. Khalili is currently pursuing an MFA degree at Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
Khalili’s photography is detailed, reflective and full of intent. He uses photography and the written word to unravel historically constructed landscapes. Borrowing from cinematic language, the images he captures become frames where the spectator embodies the progression of time and narratives. Khalili intermingles parallel stories, raising questions and forming paradoxes concerning scenery and the act of gazing, all of which are influenced by intimate politics and alienating poetics. Khalili’s work explores the effect of geographical distance on our interpretation of territory, and its ability to amplify or arrest our political and sentimental attachments.
Yazan Khalili has taken part in a number of solo exhibitions including: The Aliens, Transit Gallery, Mechelen, Belgium, 2015; Regarding Distance, E.O.A.Projects, London, UK, 2014; On Love and other Landscapes, Imane Fares Gallery, Paris, France, 2013; Landscape of Darkness, Transit Gallery, Mechelen, Belgium, 2011; Urban Impression, French Cultural Centres, Palestine, 2007-8 and Margins, The Delfina Foundation, London, UK, 2008.
Khalili has also participated in several group shows including Invisible, Ramallah, Palestine, Amman, Jordan and Rome, Italy, 2006-7; No Man’s Land, Video Art, Granada, Spain, 2008; Mapping, Art Dubai, UAE, 2009; The Jerusalem Show, Al Ma’mal Foundation, Palestine, 2010 and 2011; External: New Art from Further East, Newertown | Art, London, UK, 2010; Future of a Promise Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennial, Italy, 201; Passport to Palestine, La Scatola Gallery, London, UK, 2011; #Come Together, Edge of Arabia, London, UK, 2012; Forum Expanded, Berlinale 62, Germany, 2012; Re-emerge, Sharjah Biennial 11, UAE, 2013 and Deep Into That Darkness Peering, KSCC, Ramallah, Palestine, 2013.
Khalili’s work is in several prominent collections including the British Museum, London, UK; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE and the Imperial War Museum, London, UK. In 2006 Khalili received the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s Young Artists Award and was nominated for the KLM Paul Huf Award in 2009, 2010 and 2012, as well as the Bellagio Award in 2013.