Tarek Al-Ghoussein

A Palestinian born in Kuwait, much of Al-Ghoussein's work deals with how his identity is shaped in a context of inaccessibility and loss.

Indirectly affected by the realities that his counterparts in Palestine face, Al-Ghoussein spends his time reconstructing allegories for the obstacles, barricades and walls erected in the Occupied Territories from a distance. Now based in the UAE, many of his photographs include the artist dwarfed by a vast desert landscape, stuck in front of remnants of walls in the middle of an open space.