 'in/tangible cartographies – new arab video' was commisioned by World Wide Video Festival 2001, and especially curated by Jayce Salloum.
In the form of a story of the artist recovering from past and present, in the form of a personal documentary on the Nakbah, the catastrophe of 1948, an account of the refugee camps in general, a history, his history, and the letter from a son in Venezuela, the greetings he sends back to his Mother and his return. “The safest way to think of the past 50 years is to think of the next 50 years,” the land shines and the men speak in the form of an archive “until 1956 we still had hope but then we lost it when Egypt was attacked.” A videotape made on the 50th anniversary of Israel, a state built upon the destruction of Palestinian society and the expulsion of 68 per cent of its native people of whom 4.5 million remain refugees today, a people whose main sin is that they happened to live there.
– Jayce Salloum
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Sobhi al-Zobaidi ° 1961 Jerusalem, Israel
Lives and works in Ramallah, Palestine
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