March 18, 2024
Lara Khaldi
Season 6, Episode 8
Lara Khaldi is our guest for the finale of season 6. A curator, artist, writer, and educator, Lara Khaldi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and currently lives in Amsterdam, where she has been newly appointed as director of de Appel. Khaldi speaks to Lauren Wetmore about the Palestinian American artist, activist, and scholar Samia A. Halaby’s book Liberation Art of Palestine: Palestinian Painting and Sculpture In The Second Half Of The 20th Century ((H. T. T. B. Publications, 2001). Both Khaldi and Halaby assert that art is part of the Palestinian struggle for liberation. In the context of ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank and the retaliation faced by Palestinians and those expressing solidarity with Palestinian people, although representation may feel impossible, Khaldi urges that “the least we can do is talk about it, because the more we speak, the truth is said.”