FACING GAZA
A conceptual series of roughly 200 small works of photomontage that struggles to grasp, capture, and relate the devastation inflicted on Gaza by Israel during the 2014 War. Each photomontage in the series engages one specific day in the 50-day war, bringing into juxtaposition two images posted to Facebook on that day—an image posted by a Facebook user in Gaza alongside an image posted that same day by a Facebook user in Israel. Each of the two images is stamped with the respective name of the Facebook user, his hometown, and the date the image was posted. The images are then hand cut and glued together to form a single composite image. Bringing circumstantially remote images into close imaginary contact, the compositions generate visible tensions and contradictions that present in stark relief two vastly different wartime realities. (2014-2021)
200 Analog photomontages on paper (originally Produced 2014-2020; project Destroyed by Fire, april 20th 2020; Recreated and expanded in 2021 for the exhibit “facing Gaza” at the Museum of the Palestinian people in washington, D.c., commissioned bybthe museum and organized by gazan filmmaker and cultural embassador, ahmed mansour).
July 06 2014
