You Will Find Nothing Alive Like Its Own Image

The work of the Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji (born in Gaza in 1966, currently based in Paris) is indissolubly tied to the collective history of his homeland and his people, although refracted through the lens of his individual experience.

Through photography and video, drawing and painting, sculpture and installation, he gives life to works imbued with a sense of impermanence and fragility, which explore the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the material and the im-material, presence and absence. Poetic reflection and a bitter irony are the means through which Batniji deals with the trauma of displacement and the representation of disappearance.

This book, whose title is drawn from a verse by Mahmoud Darwish, documents his exhibition Abitare il tempo, held at the Fondazione Ago in Modena, and presents two recent bodies of work: Out of the Blue and Remnants, the latter emerging from a painful reflection on images of the genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The publication features an original text by Karim Kattan.