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Museum of Contemporary Art – Palestine (CAMP):
The Museum of Contemporary Art (CAMP) was established to relate to one of the core Palestinian experiences – displacement; as well as to account for the growing collection of visual art that has been safeguarded by Al-Ma’mal over the past ten years. There was/is a need to create a lever for new opportunities, innovative thought, and dynamic multi-cultural activity within, and surrounding Palestinian art, culture, and environment. Our goal is to utilize CAMP to relate to Palestine and its rich and multifaceted textures (traditional/ historical backdrop embedded within contemporary ambitions), while encouraging and strengthening international communications as well. We believe that a contemporary art museum must be a flexible, living organism; an expanding space that will facilitate the realization of cultural projects, empower creative individuals of all nationalities, and avoid stagnation that might otherwise act negatively in like developments. For this reason, we envision CAMP’s essence not solely as a physical place (for that would undermine our working philosophy and limit creative potential), but as an authentic, accessible, and fluid entity, a nomadic site where dialogue, growth, and resourceful experimentation are encouraged.
Our project involves the biennial 'nomadic' movement of CAMP, its cumulative art collection and 'portable' structure. Every year, CAMP will find a temporary 'home' under the auspices of a 'host museum.' The 'host museums' – located across the globe – will be invited to interact with CAMP's presence and to initiate projects and exhibitions.
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Mario Rizzi
Neighbours(working title)
2006
Selected Solo Exhibitions; MART - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Rovereto e Trento, Italy, 2004; Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002;
Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland, 2001. Selected Group Exhibitions: This Day, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2007; The London Palestine Film Festival 2007, Barbican Centre, London, UK, 2007; World Factory, Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, USA, 2007; Art, Life & Confusion, 47th October Salon, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia, 2006.
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"Both the Palestinian and the Israeli society are complex entities or, better, a system of parallel co-existing societies: for an outsider it is easy to remain on the surface, to get aware of the shell without ever getting to the core. Spending a large period of time in the area, especially while with Al-Ma'mal's artist-in-residence program in 2006, has allowed me to have a more intense exchange of ideas and consequently a deeper awareness of the hidden dynamics in human relations, which have logically benefited the work. In a social context where everybody lacks of something, materially and emotionally, the artist tried to concentrate on the events of individuals who can be considered the ultimate “other”, the exception as a hope for the totality. In the artist’s view, focusing on individuals who are exceptional or “different” by definition, contributes to underlining the importance of difference in a mature democratic society and the non-sense of any elitist separation or discrimination. No space whatsoever is anyway given in the work to any kind of political statement. The work is about singular individuals and their life stories. All these stories, assembled together, interact with each other in a complex puzzle of multifaceted humanity. The artist’s personal everyday experience in the area spontaneously flows in the work as an autobiographic element." Mario Rizzi, from the concept of Neighbours (working title).
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