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Rosalind Nashashibi: Gaza Apollo
13 October 2026 to 21 November 2026
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Nashashibi's first London solo show since her 2020 National Gallery residency: new paintings of the lost Gaza Apollo, with motifs drawn from art history.
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In 2013, a Palestinian fisherman (Joudat Ghrab) in Gaza spotted what looked like a badly burnt arm coming out of the sand on the seabed. He had discovered a life-sized, ancient Greek statue of Apollo. One finger was removed for testing; he was hoping for gold, but it turned out to be bronze. Having initially been put up for sale on eBay, it was soon seized by the Gaza authorities, and its whereabouts are now unknown to outsiders. The only existing images all seem to have been taken in one room,...
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The Guardian
Eddy Frankel
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"Not all the works are good, and the images of nudes and landscapes feel either like a distraction or filler. But the Apollo images are great. They’re like paintings of an autopsy, stark and unsettling."
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