Gaza Walls by Taysir Batniji

Gaza Walls (2001) is a photographic series created by Taysir Batniji in Gaza during the early months of the Second Intifada. This project focuses on how the city’s walls and doors, which have served as information carriers since the First Intifada (1987-1993), transform into vectors of collective memory. It features portraits, posters, slogans, graffiti, and other inscriptions that announce disappearances and the succession of faces destined to fade over time or through interventions. Batniji explores the formal, symbolic, and identity complexities of these images, which oscillate between persistence and evanescence, thus reflecting the fragility and resilience of collective memory in times of conflict.