Alexandra Handal

**Alexandra Sophia Handal,** (An haife ta a shekara ta dubu ɗaya da ɗari Tara da saba'in da biyar ) 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Palasdinawa, mai shirya fina-finai kuma marubuciya. Handal ta kasance a Turai tun shekara ta 2004, amma tana ciyar da lokaci mai tsawo a Falasdinu. Bayan ta zauna shekaru goma a London, Handal ta koma Amsterdam, Netherlands, kafin ta zauna a Berlin, Jamus tare da iyalinta, inda ta kafa ɗakin karatu.

## Tarihin rayuwa
Saboda ƙaurawar iyalinta daga Falasdinu, Handal ta shafe lokaci a ƙasashe da yawa. Iyalinta 'yan Baitalami ne daga Falasdinu. An haife ta ne a Port-au-Prince, Haiti a shekara ta dubu ɗaya da Ɗari Tara da saba'in a lokacin mulkin kama-karya na Jean-Claude Duvalier . Iyalinta daga ƙarshe sun koma Santo Domingo, Jamhuriyar Dominica, inda Handal ta yi shekaru da haihuwa.

Ta ci gaba da neman fasaha a Jami'ar Boston, inda ta sami BFA a zane da ƙarami a tarihin fasaha a shekara ta dubu ɗaya da ɗari tara da casa'in da bakwai, sannan ta sami digiri na MA a cikin zane-zane daga Jami'ar New York a shekara ta 2001. A shekara ta 2004, an ba Handal lambar yabo ta UAL Research Studentship don gudanar da aikin / ka'idar PhD  a Jami'ar Arts London, ta kammala a shekara ta 2011. A lokacin karatunta na digiri, ta kasance memba na cibiyar bincike: TrAIN  (Transnational Art, Identity and Nation). 

## Ayyukan fasaha
Handal tana da nune-nunen gidan kayan gargajiya na farko, Memory Flows Like the Tide at Dusk a Museet for Samtidskunst,  Roskilde, Denmark (Satumba-Disamba 2016). Ta nuna sabbin ayyukan tare da na yanzu, tare da haɗa ayyukanta da suka mayar da hankali kan asarar hadin gwiwa. A shekara ta 2007, ta fara gudanar da aikin tarihi na baki tare da 'yan gudun hijirar Palasdinawa da' yan gudun hijira daga Yammacin Urushalima. 

A cikin wannan nune-nunen, Handal ya bayyana ƙaura a matsayin "mafi yawan a cikin iyalinsa" a cikin ƙarni uku.[her] Bayan lokaci, ta tafi daga jin kamar baƙo na dindindin a duk inda ta tafi ta ji cewa rashin jin cewa kasancewa cikin kowace ƙasa yana ba ta damar jin cewa tana da alaƙa da yawancin su, fahimtar su tare da fahimtar mazaunin da kuma ma'anar baƙo. Ta zo ta gane da kalmar "baƙo," amma kuma don gane manufar masu ciki da na waje a matsayin bayyanar tsarin iko. Ta ce wannan fahimtar ta ba ta damar "samun sabon al'adun da ya haɗad a ni duka".

Daga cikin ayyukan da aka nuna a gidan kayan gargajiya shine aikinta mai girma, Dream Homes Property Consultants (DHPC). Yana nuna jerin sunayen "gidajen salon Larabawa" daga inda aka kori Palasdinawa a shekarar 1948. Kowane jerin yana da bayanan rayuwa game da iyalin da suka taɓa zama a can na dogon lokaci tare da wasu raye-raye da kayan tarihi. Wannan zane-zane na yanar gizo mai ma'amala" yana cikin yin tun 2007. Ya kasance Zaɓin hukuma a IDFA DocLab (2013), inda ya sami farkon duniya. An haɗa shi a cikin bukukuwan da yawa kamar UXdoc  Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal (2014), Przemiany Interdisciplinary Festival a Cibiyar Kimiyya ta Copernicus, Warsaw, Picturing Palestine: Film Screening and Panel Discussion a Modern Art Oxford  don Isra'ila Apartheid Week (2015) da Bayan Last Sky Festival  a Berlin (2016). Dream Homes Property Consultants (DHPC) sun lashe lambar yabo ta dubu biyu da sha huɗu Lumen People's Choice Gold Award (UK), shekara ta dubu biyu da sha biyar Kyauta ta biyu don Kyautar Gidauniyar Freedom Flowers  (Switzerland) kuma an sanya shi cikin jerin sunayen don Kyautar Artraker ta she kara ta dubu biyu da goma sha uku  (UK). DHPC an lura da shi a matsayin 'na farko da aka samar da shi da kansa ta hanyar yanar gizo ta hanyar mai zane-zane daga yankin MENA". Tun daga shekara ta dubu biyu da sha huɗu, DHPC ta kasance daga cikin shirye-shiryen yanar gizo ashirin da aka fi kallo a kan MIT Open Documentary Lab, wanda shine bayanan da ke bincika tasirin fasaha akan shirye-shirye.

Wani aikin da ya kasance wani ɓangare na nune-nunen solo na Handal shine gajeren gwajinsa, Daga Bed & Breakfast Notebooks . An zaba shi don New Contemporaries  2009 - baje kolin gabatarwar juried wanda ke faruwa a kowace shekara tun 1949 kuma yana nuna ayyukan masu tasowa daga makarantun fasaha na Burtaniya. Mujallar Studio International ta kira fim dinta 'mai karfi na siyasa',  yayin da Shugaban Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Sasha Craddock ya bayyana shi a matsayin 'mai waka da tausayi'.  An ambaci Handal a cikin The Guardian daga cikin 'sunayen kaɗan da za a kalli'.  Masu zabar shekara ta dubu biyu da Tara sun haɗa da: John Stezaker, Ellen Gallagher, Saskia Olde Wolbers da Wolfgang Tillmans.

## Littattafai da tarurruka
Handal ta gabatar da takardu a taron da yawa inda fasaha ta haɗu da wasu fannoni, suna tattauna jigogi na ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya, tarihi, iko, ilimi da tunanin ƙasa a cikin aikinta. Ta shiga cikin Fasaha da Ilimin Yanayi  a Royal Geographical Society tare da IBG, Taron Ƙasa da Ƙasa na Shekara, Manchester, Burtaniya (she ƙara ta dubu biyu da tara), [Rubuta] [Create]: Tarihin Magana a cikin Fasaha, Ayyuka, da Zane  a Taron Shekara-shekara na Tarihin Magunguna tare da Victoria da Albert Museum London (shekara ta dubu biyu da goma) da Taron Fasaha da Tsayayya  wanda Jami'ar Dar al-Kalima, Baitalami, Falasdinu (shekara ta dubu biyu da goma sha shidda). Handal ya ba da gudummawa ga wani rubutun "Chronicle from the Field" don littafin, Oral History in the Visual Arts .