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Hanna Farah

Hanna Farah is an Israeli visual artist, builder and architect whose work deals with the history of the village of Kafr Bir'im.

born 1960Art about Kafr Bir'imThe New Kafr Bir'im projectThe video work Block

Occupation: sculptor, printmaker

Hanna Farah was born in 1960 in Jish

Hanna Farah was born in 1960 in Jish. His family was among those displaced from the village of Kafr Bir'im, whose residents were expelled in 1948. He added the village name to his signature as a second family name to tie his identity to it.

He studied at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education. He earned a Bachelor of Science in 2001 and a bachelor of architecture in 2002.

Farah works in photography, print and sculpture, and many works deal with Kafr Bir'im and efforts to resettle it. From 1996 to 2008 he worked on the New Kafr Bir'im project. In 2005 he designed an exhibition by Hila Lulu Lin at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

His works include Block from 2002 with artist Dina Shoham and the series Disrupted from 2003. In Shelter 5-1 from 2007 he painted over the word Palestine found on a shelter wall and documented the process. He held the solo exhibition Concerns in 2014. He lives in Tel Aviv-Yafo.