Confronted with war, devastation and persecution, Palestinian artist Nidaa Badwan has gone to extremes to make her artwork flourish: She’s spent more than a year shuttered in her tiny bedroom in Gaza.Badwan, 28, says she chose physical isolation – on her own terms – over the daily oppression, by Israeli authorities and Hamas militants, that is beyond her control. Her nine square-metre bedroom in the southern Deir al-Balah district of Gaza became her permanent refuge starting in December 2013, and it has turned into a wellspring of artistic freedom. ... http://www.france24.com/en/20150512-palestinian-artist-badwan-photography-bedroom-israel-hamas
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