Palestine

On Top of the Mountain

Felestine Square in Tehran and its monument have long served as a stage for state-organised demonstrations against Israel. Through the histories surrounding the monument and the shifting relationship between Iran and Palestine, Behzad Khosravi Noori asks how meaningful solidarity with Palestine can be articulated without reproducing the propaganda of another regime.

Shibli: Photography on the Threshold

Ahlam Shibli’s photographs differ from many visual representations of Palestine through their refusal of dramatic and sensational forms. Attending closely to the effects of Israeli occupation on Palestinian land and everyday life, Shibli approaches the representation of victims cautiously, allowing the work to develop a sustained critique of oppression.

Genocide Kitchen

Sama Emad is a young Palestinian artist from Gaza. In “The Genocide Kitchen”, she uses collage to document and archive the experiences of the Gazan people, focusing on their relationship with food and the scorched land during forced displacement and the use of starvation as a tool of genocidal warfare.
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Transportations

In Transportations, Peter Lagerqvist tells the story of Palestinians who challenge the everyday realities of occupation and the restrictions on movement in the occupied lands in a peculiar manner. Through his narrative, he provides an anthropological analysis of the auto theft and joy-riding in Palestine.