Eric Gottesman

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with Toleen Touq Projects/THE PRESERVATION OF TERROR Projects/STUDIO KARMEN with Ahmed Sefferini Projects/LAUGHING COMPETITION Collaborations/PICTURES WOKE PEOPLE UP
with Wendy Ewald Book/MOBILE STUDIO with Sudden Flowers Collaborations/MY STORY TO TELL
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Colonial Effects (2006- )

I was invited by the Open Society Foundation to Jordan in 2006 to lead a workshop at Makan Gallery where I met Ahmed Taher al Sefferini, the sixty-five year old purveyor and founder of a photography studio in Zarqa. “Studio Karmen” was like an Arab Disney World, a wild place of his imagination permeated with his connection to his home in Palestine. I began photographing in his studio, and throughout Jordan, with ideas in mind about the construction of nationalism, often thinking of Ahmed and the many others who came to Jordan as refugees and decided to make it “home," though somewhere else was also home. For the next ten years, I returned – as a Fulbright Scholar, as a resident artist of the Spring Sessions, as a curator for apexart – and engaged in a series of projects that, loosely, query nationalism and its surfaces. The Colonial Effects project includes: We Have Woven The Motherlands With Nets Of Iron (2011) Another Beautiful (2011) J_____ Is Not A Country (2006- )