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BESIEGED

AN INSTALLATION BY HARRIET DIAMOND

NOVEMBER 12 - DECEMBER 12




opening reception on 
November 12, 5-8pm




BESIEGED is an installation portraying the last three years of war on Gaza.  Harriet has created a gallery-wide installation which imagines Gaza now. Her impressions are gathered and distilled from photo and print journalism, eyewitness reports, and the poetry of Palestinian and Jewish authors.  

Entering the 24 ft by 45 ft installation, the visitor comes among 25 life-size figures and many, many small figures. Looming on the gallery walls and surrounding the space fully are floor to ceiling paintings of the destroyed city of Gaza. 

Harriet Diamond has crafted a work resonating with the sadness, pain, courage and pride of these beleaguered people. She says, “As I sculpt these faces from Gaza, I wonder, is this child, mother, father still alive? It may feel like too much to engage with such hurt and our own culpability, but in the act of killing we have inextricably bound ourselves to these Gazans.”


HARRIET DIAMOND has installed her pieces at Brookgreen Garden (SC), the National Sculpture Society (NYC), the Albany Museum (NY); the Fitchburg Museum, the Berkshire Museum, the Springfield Museum, and at Chesterwood, the National Trust (Mass).  She has received the Mass. Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship Grant and a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.  She resides in Northampton, MA. www.SculptureStories.com



A.P.E.'s programming is made possible in part by sustained support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.