Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Taysir Batniji – ID Project, 1993–2020
2024
Digital prints and engraved marble
Venue
Born in 1966 à Gaza, Palestine
Lives and works in Paris, France
The work ID Project retraces the artist’s bureaucratic history until he became a naturalised French citizen. Through sixteen facsimiles of his identity documents, it recounts Taysir Batniji’s administrative progress from the moment he noticed, during a trip in 1993, that his nationality was classed as “undefined” in the relevant box on the pass issued to him by the Israeli military authorities. It happened at Rome airport, while he was waiting in the passport control queue. The anecdote reflects a continual reminder, and it is symbolised by the expression, carved in stone, of an “undefined” identity
Courtesy of the artist, Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Beirut / Hamburg)
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