Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Taysir Batniji – Disruptions, 2015-2017
2024
39 screenshots, inkjet prints on Canson paper
Venue
Born in 1966 à Gaza, Palestine
Lives and works in Paris, France
Disruptions is composed of screenshots of video conversations on WhatsApp between Taysir Batniji, his mother and various members of his family in Gaza; they were recorded between 2015 and 2017. The work keeps track of personal and private exchanges that were frozen and interrupted by a poor Internet connection. Distorted, pixelated and saturated with colour, these fragmentary images give a sense of the fragility of the family connection, maintained however in spite of the distance. Fashioned and destabilised by the same forces that daily affect the artist’s family and friends, digital space has become a reflection of communication that is subject to monitoring and surveillance.
Courtesy of the artist, and the galleries Sfeir-Semler (Beirut / Hamburg) and Eric Dupont (Paris)
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