Mandarina - International Arts Consultancy

Mandarina’s association with the ICP Infinity Award 2009 winner Dutch photographer Geert van Kesteren continues with a project to develop an exhibition and a public programme about cultural issues raised within the context of the conflict in Gaza. After his internationally acclaimed books and exhibitions Why Mister, Why? and Baghdad Calling, the Dutch photojournalist Geert van Kesteren has begun a new project: After the Ceasefires, where he searches for the human perspective within the seemingly endless conflict between Israel and Palestine.

‘Slow-journalism’ searches for boundaries, signs, keys, pitfalls and new perspectives. It takes us on a visual journey through a split country, encountering remarkable people with experiences of ambiguous events in which something is rarely what it seems. It explores what it is to be imprisoned in the past, in fear and in the Promised Land’.

Mandarina is actively seeking to promote debate and encourage dialogue on cultural questions raised by the conflict in Gaza involving architects, writers, thinkers, artists… If you are interested in participating in this project please email info@mandarinaprojects.info with your ideas.