HOME AWAY FROM HOME - Taysir Batniji
French-Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a Franco-American Commission for Photography, a program launched by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation. In Home Away from Home, Batniji brings together photographs, selections from family archives, drawings and writings to explore the sense of dislocation and 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 in-between" - both cultural and geographical - is an issue that has preoccupied me since my arrival in France in 1995. Exile, displacement and mobility are themes that have guided my work for many years."
The work Batniji has created, during his visits to Florida and California, aims to connect and understand his "American cousins" through their daily lives, the objects that surround them and the homes they've built. The photographs and portraits, interviews and memory sketches of Gaza's family home question what it means to share a history, even among relative strangers - and what happens to a sense of belonging and past when we opt for new identities and new homes.
Published by Aperture, 2008
22 cm x 28 cm, 196 pages, mint condition
ISBN 9781597114462
French-Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a Franco-American Commission for Photography, a program launched by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation. In Home Away from Home, Batniji brings together photographs, selections from family archives, drawings and writings to explore the sense of dislocation and 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 in-between" - both cultural and geographical - is an issue that has preoccupied me since my arrival in France in 1995. Exile, displacement and mobility are themes that have guided my work for many years."
The work Batniji has created, during his visits to Florida and California, aims to connect and understand his "American cousins" through their daily lives, the objects that surround them and the homes they've built. The photographs and portraits, interviews and memory sketches of Gaza's family home question what it means to share a history, even among relative strangers - and what happens to a sense of belonging and past when we opt for new identities and new homes.
Published by Aperture, 2008
22 cm x 28 cm, 196 pages, mint condition
ISBN 9781597114462
French-Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a Franco-American Commission for Photography, a program launched by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation. In Home Away from Home, Batniji brings together photographs, selections from family archives, drawings and writings to explore the sense of dislocation and 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 in-between" - both cultural and geographical - is an issue that has preoccupied me since my arrival in France in 1995. Exile, displacement and mobility are themes that have guided my work for many years."
The work Batniji has created, during his visits to Florida and California, aims to connect and understand his "American cousins" through their daily lives, the objects that surround them and the homes they've built. The photographs and portraits, interviews and memory sketches of Gaza's family home question what it means to share a history, even among relative strangers - and what happens to a sense of belonging and past when we opt for new identities and new homes.
Published by Aperture, 2008
22 cm x 28 cm, 196 pages, mint condition
ISBN 9781597114462
