Manifesto

After 15 years of daily encounters and experience with the arts in their different forms and genres, we came to the conclusion that beauty is bigger than politics. Art should not be limited to only representing political positions, despite its importance in doing so, we argue that the arts should be left to react and evolve alone without interventions from the market or the political context. Markets, as part of the political process, tend to dictate to the artist what to create. Our position does not deny the power of the political, but it steps back in order to make a balance between what artists feel and intend to create and what the market or the political atmosphere is demanding. In this political position, we are dissenting from the mainstream by encouraging Palestinian artists to create art that transcends the political, and is not limited by it. The kind of art we seek to create is the kind that imagines the future and calls for actions, changes, and breakthroughs. The kind that prioritizes aesthetics and reveals new methods and techniques. It is not a call for forming disciplines, rather, it is about going beyond disciplines with novel innovations and ideas. 

We aim to bring all Palestinian artists who live in Palestine and the diaspora together on one virtual platform to share their work in a professional manner with a wider community, a community that is interested in seeing and obtaining excellent artwork from artists who believe that they belong to the consortium.