‘It’s important to talk about these things’: exhibition highlights destroyed Middle Eastern heritage sites

Dana Awartani says Bristol show inspired by ‘dichotomy’ of some Gulf countries booming while Palestine ‘obliterated’

The exhibition is bright, beautiful and melancholy: an exploration of the loss of cultural and heritage sites in the Middle East destroyed by conflict and unsympathetic development.

Standing by the Ruins, a show by the Palestinian-Saudi artist Dana Awartani includes a recreation of an ancient bathhouse floor in Gaza believed to have been destroyed in Israeli attacks.