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“Body Recalled” (Trailer), 5:23 min, 2014

The project deals with the wedding day, the day when a couple unites physically and meets each other for the first time. There are ceremonies which cultures believe in such as cutting the bride’s hair prior to her wedding.

Raida Adon was born in Acre in 1972, graduated from the Art Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Today she lives and creates in Paris.

As a creative artist, she feels that she has always perceived a sense of commitment and responsibility, be it at the personal, political or environmental level.

As an artist, it is most important for her every day survival to converse with both cultures. With her mixed language and identity, she feels a duty and responsibility to pass on a message to the world via her art. Indeed, over the years her toolbox helped her to overcome many a fall. During each of the video art projects she produced, she went through a personal journey. Meeting people enabled her to touch and bring change, just as they, through her works of art changed her with every performance.

Her videos are in the collection of the Israel Museum and with private collectors who purchased her works. As a Palestinian, she doesn’t have many opportunities to show her art because of the complicated political situation.

Raida was the first woman to present a solo exhibition in the Israel Museum after 72 years of the state’s existence. No Arab had ever had a solo exhibition in the museum due to the complex political conflict between the two nations.