01/20 – 6 p.m. Opening: GAZA… I love you! The power of the image. An act of survival, an indelible memory

A project of Shareef Sarhan

From January 20 to March 14, 2026

Gaza is not just a city, it is a memory that breathes despite the rubble, a call that still rings in our hearts, even when everything is extinguished. These photographs form a visual journey from 2005 to 2023, an attempt to capture the features of everyday life before it was swallowed by the dust. In these images, the concrete is transformed into a skin that preserves the imprints of faces, the sea into a mirror of memory, and the children into guardians of the light. Each photograph was an act of survival, an exercise of love in the face of despair, art becoming an essential breath when the horizon was reduced to the rest. “Gaza… I love you” is not just a phrase, but the recognition that art can be a homeland and that memory, transposed into an image, becomes resistance.

Shareef Sarhan

Born in Gaza in 1976, he currently works as a photographer. He is a founding member of the Shababik collective of Gaza for contemporary art and a member of the Association of Artists of the United States of America. He has a diploma in arts from the Jordanian University and has participated in the “Ayloul” Academy of the ICS House of Arts. Under the supervision of artist Marwan Kassab Bashi, he won the encouragement award in 2007 and the bronze award in 2008 in the Arab Photographers Union competition. In 2012, he edited the photo book *Gaza viu*. His works have been exhibited in 2022 in Berlin Art, Gaza, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Oman, Great Britain and the United States.

This project is part of the PALESTINA ANIMADA series of screenings, which will take place from January 20 to 22 at the Civic Center.

With the collaboration of Jiser, La Escocesa, Impressionart, Fabra i Coats and Pati Llimona

Opening: January 20 at 7 p.m

Sala Montserrat Roig i Ruïnes.