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Venue
Thessaloniki's Port Warehouse C & B1 / Yeni Tzami / Moni Lazariston / Museum of Byzantine Culture
Artist
Taysir Batniji
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Fathers, coloured pictures, 2005-6 |
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Fathers, coloured pictures, 2005-6 |
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Fathers, coloured pictures, 2005-6 |
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Fathers, coloured pictures, 2005-6 |
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Fathers, coloured pictures, 2005-6 |
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The works are exhibited at the Warehouse B1
The works of Taysir Batniji, that either concern photographs or video works, according to him, “they collect particles of the real which they subsist in a segment between the visible and the invisible, the absence and the presence, the limits of obliteration…or of appearance.
In the series of photographs under the title “Pères”(Fathers), the artist is portraying the interior of merchandise stores and cafés of Gaza in Palestine and more particularly the photographs of the stores’ owners. Each photograph depicting the dead, usually previous owner, is interacting with the merchandises’ surroundings as also with other photographs or advertisements, presenting them as an allegory of the ancestors of the nation, the origins of the people. A picture which is located between the image of Saddam Hussein, of a poster in where a pack of American cigarettes is advertised, as also the picture of Rachel Corrie (the American activist who was killed in a demonstration by an Israeli bulldozer), is a typical example of Taysir Batniji’s work.
The video work ‘Gaza Walls’, occurs under the same concept of recording images which stand between the public and the private and it illustrates wall posters and pictures of people. The artist’s concentration in depicting posters that appear to be faded and torn, and his interest towards the vivid colors work together in diverting the images into abstract fields.
Theodore Markoglou
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