The Department of Fine Arts presents a visiting artist lecture by
Khaled Jarrar
Wednesday, October 21, 12:30 PM
VCU Student Commons Theater
907 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA 23284
Khaled Jarrar was born and raised in Jenin-Ramallah, occupied Palestine, and currently lives in NYC. Khaled Jarrar is an artist whose career transitioned from military discipline to a subversive art practice. His work is deeply rooted in his personal history and the lived reality of the West Bank. Jarrar uses diverse mediums including photography, sculpture, and performance art to highlight the complexities of life under occupation and the weight of sovereign identity. One of his projects includes upcycled concrete sculptures made by physically chiseling fragments from the apartheid wall and morphing them into pop art objects, to purchasing a land with 56 olive trees, all of which reclaim cultural endurance as a means of liberation, liberating the land (Ardh) from toxic synthetic fertilizers using black goat manure. His lecture for VCUarts is titled, “A Man Fights Nurture – Flat-White Revolution.”
