John Halaka explores concepts of uprooting societies and civillzations. In his most recent exhibition -landscapes of desire- at the mosaic rooms, starting on the 6th of May is a collection of paintings on the abadoned, crumbled houses of the Palestinians after the Israeli occupation. The paintings have a great textured quality to them which is generated by the repeated words that all his paintings are made from. “remember,” “resist,” “return,” “rebuild” and “forgive” with forgive as the most prominent I like the simple message made by these paintings and see it also as a personal journey that the artist is undertaking.