美国巴勒斯坦博物馆凭借 Mohammed Alhaj 的作品进入 NFT 市场

位于康涅狄格州的美国巴勒斯坦博物馆本周已进入 NFT（不可替代代币）市场，在 OpenSea 平台上推出了一系列以作品为特色的藏品

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.

美国巴勒斯坦博物馆在 OpenSea 平台上推出了一系列 NFT（不可替代代币），其中包括加沙艺术家 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.

这标志着博物馆首次在加沙启动 NFT 项目。虽然该地区有一些艺术家以 NFT 的形式出售自己的作品，例如 Maysa Youssef，拉马拉艺术家 Khaled Jarrar 于 2021 年开始使用 NFT，但此前还没有博物馆采取过此类举措。

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.

该系列以一幅 80 厘米 x 100 厘米的丙烯画作拉开帷幕，该画作曾于 2020 年在加沙城和 2022 年威尼斯双年展上展出。这幅画描绘了在不确定的地形中徘徊的流离失所的人物，对许多巴勒斯坦人的困境进行了令人心酸的描绘。

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 上购买，起价为 1,500 美元。每件 NFT 的销售收入的一部分将用于支持美国巴勒斯坦博物馆及其促进巴勒斯坦艺术和文化的使命。

“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.

“通过进军 NFT 市场，博物馆不仅拥抱数字艺术领域，还为像 Mohammed Alhaj 这样的艺术家提供了一个在全球展示其作品的平台，”美国巴勒斯坦博物馆馆长费萨尔·萨利赫 (Faisal Saleh) 告诉《艺术报》。

“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 版本让艺术爱好者和收藏家能够拥有这件意义深远的作品的独特数字表达形式，同时支持其背后的才华横溢的艺术家。”

A recent drawing by Mohammed Alhaj. Courtesy the artist

穆罕默德·阿尔哈吉 (Mohammed Alhaj) 最近的一幅画。由艺术家提供

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”.

萨利赫补充道，此次合作“不仅展示了巴勒斯坦艺术家的才华和创造力，还为超越国界和壁垒的数字艺术消费新时代铺平了道路”。他补充说，这“也凸显了巴勒斯坦艺术家即使面对逆境也表现出的韧性和创造力”。

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 岁的 Alhaj 当然也经历过一些逆境。他告诉《艺术报》，哈马斯于 2023 年 10 月 7 日对以色列发动恐怖袭击，以色列开始报复性袭击一周后，他被迫逃离加沙城的家，到汗尤尼斯寻求庇护。 2024 年 3 月，他和他的年轻家人一直住在那里的一个帐篷里。

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.

令人难以置信的是，在这场磨难中，阿尔哈吉继续工作，创作了一系列铅笔和墨水画，记录了他的人民的困境。其中一些是从加沙偷运出来的，另一些则以数字图像的形式发送出去，这些图像被打印出来并在 2024 年双年展期间在威尼斯美国巴勒斯坦博物馆的展览上展出。

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，一位来自加沙城的朋友打电话给Alhaj，转达了他的艺术工作室和20年的作品被以色列国防军（IDF）轰炸摧毁的消息。 “我的工作室就在 Al-Shifa 医院后面，”Alhaj 说。

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.

从那时起，他逃到了加沙中部一个更安全的地区，他和家人住在他父亲的家里。他现在开始从头开始重建他的作品。他的一些作品被安全地保存在美国巴勒斯坦博物馆、比尔泽特的巴勒斯坦博物馆以及欧洲的私人收藏中。

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

“我在这里没有工作室，”他说，“而且非常拥挤，但我的艺术是我的生命线。”

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

穆罕默德·阿尔哈吉 (Mohammed Alhaj) 最近的纸上作品。由艺术家提供

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.

阿尔哈吉曾在包括雕塑在内的多种媒体领域工作过，他说他受到了巴勒斯坦斯利曼·曼苏尔和伊拉克穆罕默德·加尼等艺术家的启发。尽管加沙条件恶劣，他仍继续创作铅笔、钢笔、墨水和水彩画的新作品。

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.

他的新作品的主题仍然是他的人民的流离失所和他们持续的困境。他支离破碎的风景让人想起失落的家园，他的人物充满了紧迫的运动感，让人想起1948年的当前局势以及战争和流离失所。

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 与博物馆的新合作将有助于保护加沙现存的艺术品。 “也许我们巴勒斯坦人现在需要它，”他说，并暗示 NFT 可能是战区艺术家的理想媒介。 “特别是在我和我的同事由于持续的轰炸和破坏而失去了大量工作之后。”