At Home, Elsewhere, 2000 (ongoing work)
Gaza, Naples, Bourges, Paris, Gaza, Stuttgart, Vichy, Marseille, Paris, Gaza, Paris – Taysir Batniji’s itinerary has been marked by hesitation and fluctuation, before coming to an end when he settled in Paris, with his family, and was naturalized. When faced with this discontinuity of geography and identity, and perhaps even a certain crumbling of the self as a result of migration, the artist, as if looking for something to hold onto, directed his gaze at his everyday life, his house, his entourage – fragments, some of which echo memories from the past, another culture and other places.