Diaspora Now! Mirna Bamieh

Mirna Bamieh

Palestinian, born in East Jerusalem in 1983. She is based in Palestine including Ramallah and other cities. Graduated from the Bezalel Academy for Fine Arts in 2013 and participated in the Ashkal Alwan Home Works study Program in Beirut 2013/2014, she engages in her activities focusing on the issues of lands, territories and identity. In a contemporary society where images and movies capturing disputed areas are overflown, the artist highlights anguish and trauma marked on the bodies by processing these images and movies. She participated in the “Creator in Residence” at the Tokyo Wonder Site in 2016, she created her work during her stay in Japan.

No Flag Flutters in the Wind

[2015]

Tutorial: How to Disappear, Become an Image

[2015, 5’ 16”]

Interrupted Biography

[2014, 10’ 40”]