From 4 October to 31 December 2023
From Israel to Trani to bring Middle Eastern culture to Puglia. “Ludmilla”, the solo show by Maria Saleh, an Israeli-Ukrainian Arab artist, starting from Wednesday 4 October, will be available for six months inside the gallery recreated in the Castle embankment Swabian of Trani. Anticipated by a press conference at 5.00 pm, the opening of the gallery to the public is scheduled for 6.00 pm on October 4th, with free entry until 10.30 pm; from the following day, the gallery will be part of the Castle visit route, at the usual opening hours and at the ordinary cost of the entrance ticket. The project is sponsored and supported by the city of Trani.
4 meters high, 11 meters long and created with the charcoal on canvas technique, the work by Saleh, the young artist who won the Tel Aviv Art Museum's Rapoport prize in 2023 as the best Israeli talent of the year, represents the her mother, Ludmila's first encounter with the city of Um El Fahem, one of the largest Arab centers in Israel, where Saleh Mahameed was born and raised.
Ludmila, a Ukrainian of Christian religion, was born in Kiev, where she first met the father of Saleh Mahameed - a Palestinian of Muslim religion - with whom she decided to move to Israel. The work is the first chapter of a series dedicated to the history of the artist's family.
Piazza Manfredi Re, 16, Trani, Italy
Opening hours
opens - closes | last entry | |
monday | Closed now | |
tuesday | 10:00 - 18:00 | |
wednesday | 10:00 - 18:00 | |
thursday | 10:00 - 18:00 | |
friday | 10:00 - 18:00 | |
saturday | 10:00 - 18:00 | |
sunday | 10:00 - 18:00 |