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The Franco-Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a Franco-American photography commission, 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 the various notions of “home” experienced by different members of his family who immigrated to the United States from the Middle East. As Batniji explains, “the state of being 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 created during his visits to Florida and California aims to forge connections and understand his “American cousins” through their daily lives, the objects that surround them, and the homes they have built. The photographs and portraits, interviews, and sketches of the family home in Gaza challenge what it means to share a history, even among distant relatives—and what happens to a sense of belonging and the past when one chooses new identities and new homes.
Published by Aperture, 2008
22 cm 28 cm, 196 pages, like new
ISBN
The Franco-Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a Franco-American photography commission, 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 the various notions of “home” experienced by different members of his family who immigrated to the United States from the Middle East. As Batniji explains, “the state of being 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 created during his visits to Florida and California aims to forge connections and understand his “American cousins” through their daily lives, the objects that surround them, and the homes they have built. The photographs and portraits, interviews, and sketches of the family home in Gaza challenge what it means to share a history, even among distant relatives—and what happens to a sense of belonging and the past when one chooses new identities and new homes.
Published by Aperture, 2008
22 cm 28 cm, 196 pages, like new
ISBN
