video installation
Year: 2018
Su gente, su cielo, su aroma (Its people, its sky, its scent) is an installation on the relationship between Palestinians in Palestine and Palestinians in Chile, comparing the passed-on nostalgia of the Palestinians of the diaspora with that of the Palestinians who stayed.
The installation is composed of two videos shot in Bethlehem and Beit Jala (Palestine): to trace the steps, a meeting with people in Bethlehem who have family in Chile; and Chilean visions of Palestine / Who owns Dabke, an exploration of what the inherited nostalgia of what Palestine used to be, feels like when in Palestine. Part of the latter is a conversation with teenagers from Beit Jala around the ownership over Palestinian culture and Dabke in particular.
“On the road” - artist residency in Palestine (organized by the French German Cultural Center in Ramallah)
Exhibition of the work in progress in Bethlehem
