Many artists have used photographs as a source of inspiration for their work, and often engage in creating mimetic representation of the image, focusing on likeness, or attempting to rival the photographer’s craft through painting. However Nabil Anani, is less concerned with likeness but rather with capturing intimacy, family poses and stature, imparting through the various paintings a sense of wholeness, and completeness- taking us back in time with his hues and textures to a era before loss and longing, and with that imparting a deep sense of nostalgia. His paintings act as a form of imaginary reunification with our past communities through which he attempts to create a palette of remembrance and plentitude set against the background of the experience of dispersal and fragmentation of Palestinian families. Dr. Tina Sherwell December 2014 nabilanani.net/life-before-1948/
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