Acácio Barreiros Auditorium, Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval
Wednesday, November 16, 8:30pm
A conversation that, in the context of Breaking the Bars, particularly about Gaza Strip, will make us realize that the colonial strategies of control in that area are quite similar - even identical - to a prison control.
Being aware of this situation, we’ll talk about the importance and the artistic creation’s difficulties in a country under colonial control, with the painter and poet Malak Mattar and the director, both born in Palestine.
«To be a painter in Gaza is to wait for death at any momento, knowing that your paints will live forever; is to search for the security of your paints, before your own. Is to carry the pain of the people around you, since the moment you wake up until the moment you feel asleep; is to find an escape through the paint and canvas, materials that are almost forbidden for the occupation.
Is to paint the anxiety, the isolation and the choice in the people’s face, tired by this war and this prison.»
Malak Mattar
The discussion will be following by Kamal Aljafari film.