CNAP

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 carriers of information since the First Intifada (1987-1993), transform into vectors of collective memory. The project features portraits, posters, slogans, graffiti, and other inscriptions that announce the disappearances and succes- sion of faces destined to fade over time or through interventions. Batniji explores the formal, symbolic, and identity-related complexities of these images, which oscillate between persistence and evanescence, reflecting the fragility and resilience of collec- tive memory in times of conflict.