Claudia Aravena Abughosh
In the work series "The Palestine Project" the artist born in Chile explores her Palestinian roots.
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Greetings from Palestine. 2003
Videoinstallation at the Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival in Germany, 2003
This video consists of a single take: a concrete barricade in Bethlehem, built to block Palestinian access to Jerusalem. In voice-off you can hear the conversation sustained by the artist and the Israeli soldiers guarding this military outpost. The soldiers’ attempt to block the author’s filming remains a pleonasm of the wall itself, her proximity to the wall and by extension, her arrival in Jerusalem. A video loop was projected onto concrete blocks, both the reiteration of the barricade and the endless repetition of the single take represent the eternal return of the identical as a perception of the sinister (Freud).
© Photos: Claudia Aravena
In the work series "The Palestine Project" the artist born in Chile explores her Palestinian roots.