Ahmed Alaqra
Biography
Image Courtesy of Dina Salem, 2022
Ahmed Alaqra is a Palestinian artist, architect, and curator whose practice interrogates the visual and material languages that shape our public realms. Working across photography, text, installation, and archival forms, he explores how meaning is constructed around everyday objects. His approach often centres on processes of unmaking and unlearning, challenging dominant narratives and opening space for alternative ways of seeing and learning.
Alaqra has curated exhibitions across Europe and the Arab world, with recent projects including I Will Write Our Will Above the Clouds, a touring exhibition, and Salt-Kissed at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah. His work has also been presented at institutions such as the Qattan Foundation, ICD Brookfield Place, the Spore Initiative, and POUSH. Alaqra is the co-founder of the FANA' Collective and EL-GORFEH - Palestine's first community darkroom - both serving as experimental platforms for shared making, reflection, and collective agency. Currently, he is a fellow of the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP).
Alaqra has curated exhibitions across Europe and the Arab world, with recent projects including I Will Write Our Will Above the Clouds, a touring exhibition, and Salt-Kissed at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah. His work has also been presented at institutions such as the Qattan Foundation, ICD Brookfield Place, the Spore Initiative, and POUSH. Alaqra is the co-founder of the FANA' Collective and EL-GORFEH - Palestine's first community darkroom - both serving as experimental platforms for shared making, reflection, and collective agency. Currently, he is a fellow of the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP).
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