Raafat Hattab
Bidoon Enwan (Untitled)

Bidoon Enwan (Untitled), 2009 

Bidoon Enwan In Arabic has a double meaning: Without an address and Untitled. 

The video was created based on the artist’s feeling of lack of belonging to his existence as a person and to the place, city, and country where he lives. The olive tree in Rabin Square is lonely, it is planted where it does not belong.

The title of the song being played is Hubb (Love in Arabic) and talks about longing and sacrifice. It was chosen to amplify the sense of non-belonging and alienation felt by both the tree and the artist.

Bidoon Enwan (Untitled), 2009. 4:06 min

Raafat Hattab (b.1981, Jaffa) studied at the French school College de Ferrer in Jaffa and later attended a Municipal Jewish School, Ironi Zain. He holds a B.Ed.FA. from Beit Berl’s HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts (2005) and an M.FA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In 2005, he was one of the founders of the Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture, where he was a member until 2012. Since then, he has worked as an independent artist.