ARTnews includes our Hazem Harb presentation at the first Art Basel Qatar in Daniel Cassady's selection of booths from the fair.
The inaugural Art Basel Qatar was set inside Msheireb Downtown Doha, across the M7 building and the Doha Design District. Cassady's list opens with the setting and then moves booth by booth.
The entry on Tabari explains that our booth was dedicated to Hazem Harb, the Palestinian artist whose collages and installations engage with archaeology, mapping and displacement. The presentation drew on work made from 2018 to the present. Several pieces came from Reformulated Archaeology (2018), in which Harb layers landscapes, anatomical forms and images of Neolithic figurines from across Palestine into dense fields that echo how artefacts are extracted, catalogued and displayed far from where they were found.
The writer also describes Victims of a Map (2025), where historical maps are reassembled into abstract figures and the names of erased villages are written on glass, and And In Between (2024), an installation of enlarged 3D printed keys copying the key to Harb's family home in Gaza and the key to his own apartment, both destroyed. Through repetition, ARTnews writes, the key presents displacement as ongoing.
Hazem Harb has worked with Tabari for many years, and the booth marked the gallery's first Art Basel fair.
