Agbaria grows cactus hedges and produces stems, forcing proximity on plants For the first time, Agbaria’s carpets also undergo a metamorphosis: after Names of the works: ‘The Memorial Stand’, ‘Blind in His Homeland’, ‘Between Heaven and Earth’<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fouad Agbaria, the veteran artist who moves between Musmus and Umm al-Fahm, presents virtuoso paintings along with thin iron installations and the installation ‘Sabra’ that he prepared especially for the exhibition at the Givat Haviva Shared Art Gallery. Agbaria, who also moves between identities and affiliations, invites viewers to meander through his roots. Agbaria explores […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[92,196],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-en","tag-art","tag-new-exhibition"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Blind](\"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%90%D7%93-%D7%90%D7%92%D7%91%D7%90%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%AA%D7%95-2025.-%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%9F-%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%91%D7%93-scaled.jpg\")
Agbaria explores his past with his hands: the rough textures he scooped from
\nthe soil, which he still cultivates today, are placed on the canvas in a way that
\nbrings his realistic and fantastical paintings to life. The wild and charged
\nlandscape of his childhood changed throughout his life and gave rise to
\ndifficult feelings of disappointment, frustration, and emotional detachment,
\nwhich he translated into art that sends out roots in all directions, clinging and
\nbeing uprooted, intertwining and letting go.
\nThe motif of roots appears in all of his works, as a symbol that seeks to be
\nembedded in national, familial, and agricultural soil, but is torn away and
\nreveals prominent,
\nsensual, and aggressive living roots that connect him to his father and mother,
\nto childhood memories and culture, and to the uprooting to which he clings. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nthat did not choose to come close, and reviving ideas born in his orchard
\nlocated not far from the separation wall. This severance of the space and the
\nfabric of life is expressed in large paintings, rich in strokes of color, that will fill
\nthe gallery walls, ranging from anger to lyricism and longing. At the center of
\nthe space will stand the living model, a cactus whose exposed, torn roots will
\nsuck up liquid, part water, part blood, from an artificial source; in this way, the
\ncactus will continue to exist and breathe even outside its natural environment,
\nresuscitated by the artist. <\/span><\/p>\n
\npainting countless embroidered Palestinian carpets, this time they too become
\nmetal installations, laser-cut, with their colorful threads hiding behind them
\nand reminiscent of the familiar order of things. These carpets, which have lost
\nthe softness of the fabric, also tell his story and send roots back to his
\npersonal and national biography. <\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"Fouad](\"https:\/\/givathaviva.mymvn.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-26-at-11.24.00.jpeg\")
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