Holy Gates No.6 by Bashar Alhroub

Witness this captivating silkscreen art print, Bashar Alhroub’s Holy Gates No. 6.

In this series, Alhroub packages the city of Jerusalem as a religious symbol and reinvents it as a pop culture subject. He traces the boundaries between holiness and material culture and invites the visitor to observe a fine line between religion and commercial clutter.
Bashar Alhroub is a Ramallah-based Palestinian artist renowned for using a variety of materials and forms focusing on Sufi themes. His silkscreen works emphasize the holiness of the city of Jerusalem and its proximity to the heavens. Alhroub uses a range of media in his work, such as paintings, drawings, silkscreen printing, photography, and video installations. His pieces directly address the polemics of a place, challenging its significance to humanity and its impact on creativity.