Diala Mdah

Born in Majdah Shams, Golan in 1978. She obtained her BA in Photography in 2004 at the Applied Arts Institure in Damascus, Syria. Her work experience includes teaching photography at the Fateh Mudarris Center for Arts and Culture. She is a member of the International Federation of Photgraphic Art ( FLAP ) and has exhibited in West Bank and the Golan Heights, as well as in Europe.

Selected group exhibitions:

2007 “From Golan” , Al Hallah, Gallery, Ramallah
“From Golan” The Virtual Gallery, Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank

“From Golan”, Bethlehem Peace Center, Bethlehem

2005 “Oriental Rhythms”, Fateh Mudarris Center for Arts and Culture, Golan Heights

2004 The National Journalistic Photo Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands

“Love”, Photography Exhibition, Adana, Turkey 

Solo Exhibitions:

2004 Exhibition in Fateh Mudarris Center for Arts and Culture,   Golan Heights

“Photography Days” French Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria.

2003   “Alsha’ab”, Fine Arts Association, Damascus, Syria.

Her brother Amin al Halabi has exhibited his stunning drawings at Kaan Zamaan in the past, as has her brother in law Minhal al Halabi ( who was represented by Fisher Fine Arts in Parnell for many years ).

In 2008 Diala was nominted “Young Artist of the Year” in West Bank. 

About the work:

“Existence”

Digital photographs on paper, mounted on PVC.

Darkness and light, hot and cold, movement and stillness; contradictions which sometimes overlap smoothly and sometimes violently, and always to form the body of a woman. There are no defined features or out lines to the body. It is born frm darkness and ends in light, and vice versa. Between birth and death speaks the story of the body — the story of existence.