Taysir Batniji Home Away from Home by Contributions by Taysir Batniji
Brand: Aperture
Product Description
Palestinian French artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion a French American Photography Commission a program launched by the Fondation dentreprise Herms in alliance with Aperture Foundation. In Home Away from Home Batniji brings together photographs selections from family archives videos drawings and writings to explore the sense of dislocation and the different ideas of home experienced by various members of his family who immigrated to the United States from the Middle East. As Batniji explains The state of betweennesscultural as well as geographicis an issue that has preoccupied me since I first arrived in France in 1995. Exile displacement and mobility are themes that have driven my work for many years. The work Batniji has created during visits to Florida and California strives to connect to and understand his American cousins through their daily lives the objects that surround them and the homes they have made. The resulting photographs and portraits interviews and sketches from memory of the family homestead in Gaza question what it means to share a history even among relative strangersand what happens to a sense of the past and of belonging when opting for new identities and new homes. Copublished by Aperture and Fondation dentreprise Herms show more
Condition : New
Author : Contributions By Taysir Batniji
Weight : 892
Publisher : Aperture
Language : English
EAN : 9781597114462
ISBN10 : 1597114464
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20180315
Place of Publication : United States
Pagination : 194 Pages Illustrated In Colour Throughout
Dimensions : 276 X 227 X 15