FACING GAZA
A series of works that struggle to grasp, capture, and relate the devastation inflicted on Gaza by Israel during the 2014 War in the broader social context of Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine. Each collage 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 image is stamped with the respective name of the Facebook user, his hometown, and the date the image was posted to the platform. The two images are then cut and glued together to form a single composite image. Bringing two geographically and temporally proximate yet circumstantially remote images into close imaginary contact, the compositions generate visible tensions and contradictions that present in stark relief two vastly different wartime realities.
200 Analog collages (2014-2021; Destroyed by Fire 2020; Recreated in 2021 for the exhibit “facing Gaza” at the Museum of the Palestinian people in washington, D.c., organized by museum curator ahmed mansour).
July 06 2014
