The Hiccup Rendezvous
Artwork from the VIERNULVIER Collection
Artist: Sarah Yu Zeebroek & Haitham Haddad | BE & PS | 2022
A location-specific project was planned for spring 2020 by the name of ‘YALLA’, through which VIERNULVIER hoped to build further on its relationship with Palestine and its art world in particular. Together with partner A.M. Qattan Foundation we developed a programme around cultural exchange and solidarity. A Belgian delegation of artists and cultural workers would travel to Ramallah and Haifa for a seven-day programme full of concerts, workshops, residencies and more.
In preparation for the project, Ghent artist Sarah Yu Zeebroek travelled to Haifa in early 2020 to work on a creation with Palestinian artist Haitham Haddad. The corona pandemic unfortunately forced the cancellation of the entire project and also ended their collaboration.
To still make part of the exchange visible to our audience and to end the project in a more beautiful way, VIERNULVIER invited both artists to create a new mural together. In late September 2022, they collaborated here on a wall drawing featuring two different drawing styles that come together in a stylish symbiosis.
Sarah Yu Zeebroek is a Belgian artist, illustrator and musician. She studied fine art and illustration at Ghent’s LUCA School of Arts. Her work has a distinctively cartoonish and often absurdist style. She works both autonomously and on commission for newspapers, magazines, cultural organisations and bands.
Haitham (Charles) Haddad is an illustrator and visual designer from Palestinian Haifa. He studied fashion design at Israel’s Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art. He combines video, photography, illustration and animation to create his own visual language. This often revolves around identity and is inspired by the history of costume design, queer culture and religious iconography.