美國巴勒斯坦博物館憑藉 Mohammed Alhaj 的作品進入 NFT 市場

位於康乃狄克州的美國巴勒斯坦博物館本週已進入 NFT（不可替代代幣）市場，在 OpenSea 平台上推出了一系列以作品為特色的藏品

The Palestine Museum US has launched a collection of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) on the platform OpenSea, featuring work by the Gazan artist Mohammed Alhaj from his Displacement series.

美國巴勒斯坦博物館在 OpenSea 平台上推出了一系列 NFT（不可替代代幣），其中包括加薩藝術家 Mohammed Alhaj 的《Displacement》系列作品。

This marks the first time a museum has initiated an NFT programme in Gaza. While there are individual artists in the territory who sell their work as NFTs, such as Maysa Youssef, and the Ramallah-based artist Khaled Jarrar began working with NFTs in 2021, no museum had previously undertaken such an initiative.

這標誌著博物館首次在加薩啟動 NFT 計畫。雖然該地區有個別藝術家以 NFT 的形式出售自己的作品，例如 Maysa Youssef，拉馬拉藝術家 Khaled Jarrar 於 2021 年開始使用 NFT，但此前還沒有博物館採取過此類舉措。

The collection kicked off with an image of a 80cm by 100cm painting in acrylic that was shown in Gaza City in 2020 and at the Venice Biennale in 2022. A poignant take on the plight of many Palestinians, it features displaced figures wandering through uncertain terrain.

該系列以一幅80 厘米x 100 厘米的丙烯畫作拉開序幕，該畫作曾於2020 年在加沙城和2022 年威尼斯雙年展上展出。流離失所的人物，對許多巴勒斯坦人的困境進行了令人心酸的描繪。

The NFT version of Displacement is available for purchase on OpenSea, with a starting bid of $1,500. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each NFT will go towards supporting the Palestine Museum US and its mission to promote Palestinian art and culture.

Displacement 的 NFT 版本可在 OpenSea 上購買，起價為 1,500 美元。每件 NFT 的銷售收入的一部分將用於支持美國巴勒斯坦博物館及其促進巴勒斯坦藝術和文化的使命。

“By venturing into the NFT market, the museum is not only embracing the digital art realm but also providing a platform for artists like Mohammed Alhaj to showcase their work globally,” Faisal Saleh, the Palestine Museum US’s director, tells The Art Newspaper.

「透過進軍NFT 市場，博物館不僅擁抱數位藝術領域，還為像Mohammed Alhaj 這樣的藝術家提供了一個在全球展示其作品的平台，」美國巴勒斯坦博物館館長費薩爾·薩利赫(Faisal Saleh) 告訴《藝術報》。

“The NFT version of Displacement allows art enthusiasts and collectors to own a unique digital representation of this profound piece, all while supporting the talented artist behind it.”

“Displacement 的 NFT 版本讓藝術愛好者和收藏家能夠擁有這件意義深遠的作品的獨特數字表達形式，同時支持其背後的才華橫溢的藝術家。”

A recent drawing by Mohammed Alhaj. Courtesy the artist

穆罕默德·阿爾哈吉 (Mohammed Alhaj) 最近的一幅畫。由藝術家提供

The collaboration, Saleh adds, “not only showcases the talent and creativity of Palestinian artists but also paves the way for a new era of digital art consumption that transcends borders and barriers”. He adds that it “also highlights the resilience and creativity of Palestinian artists, even in the face of adversity”.

薩利赫補充道，這項合作「不僅展示了巴勒斯坦藝術家的才華和創造力，也為超越國界和障礙的數位藝術消費新時代鋪平了道路」。他補充說，這「也凸顯了巴勒斯坦藝術家即使面對逆境也表現出的韌性和創造力」。

The 42-year-old Alhaj has certainly dealt with his share of adversity. A week after Hamas terror attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the beginning of Israel’s retaliatory strikes, he tells The Art Newspaper, he was forced to flee his home in Gaza City and seek refuge in Khan Yunis. He and his young family lived in a tent there through March 2024.

42 歲的 Alhaj 當然也經歷過一些逆境。他告訴《藝術報》，哈馬斯於 2023 年 10 月 7 日對以色列發動恐怖攻擊，以色列開始報復性攻擊一週後，被迫逃離加薩城的家，到汗尤尼斯尋求庇護。 2024 年 3 月，他和他的年輕家人一直住在那裡的帳篷裡。

Incredibly, throughout this ordeal, Alhaj kept on working, producing a series of pencil and ink drawings documenting the plight of his people. Some of these were smuggled out of Gaza, and others sent as digital images that were printed and exhibited at the Palestine Museum US’s exhibition in Venice during the 2024 Biennale.

令人難以置信的是，在這場磨難中，阿爾哈吉繼續工作，創作了一系列鉛筆和墨水畫，記錄了他的人民的困境。其中一些是從加薩偷運出來的，另一些則以數位圖像的形式發送出去，這些圖像被列印出來並在 2024 年雙年展期間在威尼斯美國巴勒斯坦博物館的展覽上展出。

In March 2024, a friend from Gaza City called Alhaj to relay the news that his art studio and 20 years of work had been destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) bombing. “My studio was right behind Al-Shifa hospital,” Alhaj says.

2024年3月，一位來自加薩城的朋友打電話給Alhaj，轉達了他的藝術工作室和20年的作品被以色列國防軍（IDF）轟炸摧毀的消息。 「我的工作室就在 Al-Shifa 醫院後面，」Alhaj 說。

Since then he has fled to a safer area in central Gaza, where he and his family live at his father’s home. He is now starting to rebuild his oeuvre from scratch. Some of his work is in safe keeping at the Palestine Museum US, the Palestinian Museum in Bir Zeit and in private collections in Europe.

從那時起，他逃到了加薩中部一個更安全的地區，他和家人住在他父親的家裡。他現在開始從頭開始重建他的作品。他的一些作品被安全地保存在美國巴勒斯坦博物館、​​比爾澤特的巴勒斯坦博物館以及歐洲的私人收藏中。

“I have no studio here,” he says, “and it’s very crowded, but my art is my lifeline.”

“我在這裡沒有工作室，”他說，“而且非常擁擠，但我的藝術是我的生命線。”

A recent work on paper by Mohammed Alhaj. Courtesy the artist

穆罕默德·阿爾哈吉 (Mohammed Alhaj) 最近的紙上作品。由藝術家提供

Alhaj, who has worked in a variety of media including sculpture, says he is inspired by artists like the Palestinian Sliman Mansour and Iraqi Mohammed al Ghani. In spite of harsh conditions in Gaza, he continues to produce new work in pencil, pen, ink and watercolours.

阿爾哈吉曾在包括雕塑在內的多種媒體領域工作過，他說他受到了巴勒斯坦斯利曼·曼蘇爾和伊拉克穆罕默德·加尼等藝術家的啟發。儘管加薩條件惡劣，他仍繼續創作鉛筆、鋼筆、墨水和水彩畫的新作品。

The subject of his new works continues to be the displacement of his people and their ongoing plight. His fragmented landscapes evoke a lost homeland, and his figures are caught in an urgent sense of motion, evoking the current situation as well as the war and displacement of 1948.

他的新作品的主題仍然是他的人民的流離失所和他們持續的困境。他支離破碎的風景讓人想起失落的家園，他的人物充滿了緊迫的運動感，讓人想起1948年的當前局勢以及戰爭和流離失所。

Alhaj hopes that the new NFT collaboration with the museum will help preserve the art that remains in Gaza. “Perhaps we Palestinians need it now,” he says, suggesting that NFTs might be an ideal medium for artists in war zones. “Especially after my colleagues and I lost so much of our work due to the ongoing bombing and destruction.”

Alhaj 希望 NFT 與博物館的新合作將有助於保護加薩現存的藝術品。 「也許我們巴勒斯坦人現在需要它，」他說，並暗示 NFT 可能是戰區藝術家的理想媒介。 “特別是在我和我的同事由於持續的轟炸和破壞而失去了大量工作之後。”