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Artist Dorgham Quraiqi killed an Israeli air strike in Gaza on March 18, according to British charity Hope and Play. this Art newspaper He was 28 years old, reported Thursday.
Hope and Drama say Quraiqi’s family was also killed during the air strike. “At Dorgam we have lost a great colleague who always come up with new ideas and know how to achieve them with great enthusiasm,” the organization wrote in the announcement. “A wonderful and talented person is no longer.”
Quraiqi’s work includes film screenings for children in Palestine refugee camps. He also painted paintings, showing his works, such as the Palestinian Museum in Bozt. The institution presented his work in “This is Not an Exhibition”, which focused on how Palestinian artists, especially Gaza, use their art to protest “the ugly cruelty of a profession designed to humanize”.
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The show was organized by Shababek for Contemporary Art and Eltiqa Gallery, two contemporary art spaces destroyed in an airstrike. The latter gallery participated in Documenta 15 in 2022; its event is the subject of the upcoming exhibition at Jameel Art Center in Dubai.
The devastating consciousness experienced by organizers of these art spaces is familiar to Quraiqi, who wrote on Instagram this year that Israeli troops destroyed his studio.
He wrote in a recent Instagram post two weeks ago: “After 15 months of displacement, I returned to Canada to face an incredible and very difficult reality; after my house and office were destroyed, the Israeli army completely destroyed the Israeli army, and all my artworks were done in my first exhibition “The Painting on the Chair” and this is my painting, and this is my painting, not my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and that’s my painting, and
Other artists have also died in Gaza since 2023. That year, in October, Heba Zagout and Muhammed Sami Qariqa were killed in an air strike. In 2024, painter Fathi Ghaben died after Israeli authorities denied that he left Gaza for opportunities to seek medical assistance.
