Godfried van Bouillon; de bastaardzoon van Antara Bin-Shaddad

A story that jumps through time and across geographies brings the artist and her grandmother in Palestine, together with two well-known European personalities; Godefroid de Bouillon and the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel. Time collapses as we travel back and forth across millennia—from Jerusalem, to Brussels, to London, and back to Jerusalem. Using different forms of collage in both the narrative and the images, Hijawi tactfully invites us to look with her at how colonialism is deeply embedded in canonised European artworks.

Credits

Creation and performance Samah Hijawi | Dramaturgy Reem Shilleh | Technician Gregor Van Mulders | Production Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek | Coproduction BOZAR, Chaire Mahmoud Darwich, Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Moussem, A.M. Qattan Foundation, KAAP | Coaches Frederik Le Roy, Sana Ghobbeh, Einat Tuchman en Lilia Mestre | With the support of de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, MMAG Foundation, Nadine, en De School van Gaasbeek