1- “THE SIEGE”
The boys portrayed the siege and the road blocks which are imposed on the
Palestinians in their homeland, by using long nails to trap live birds
between them. The nails represent the borders on the governorates of the
West Bank and Gaza.
It is a traditional lunch table “Tablya” for a normal Palestinian family. They still reserve the place of their brother even after his martyrdom.
3- “PALESTINIAN TIMES”
This piece is about the expulsion of Palestinians from their land. This expulsion takes place in front of the United Nations Security Council and despite resolutions they have passed.
The UN flag is used as a clock. Each hour is an important date in the history of Palestinian refugees. The colors of the Palestinian flag are used to stand for the numerous refugee camps. The five chairs represent the five permanent members of the council.
A white wooden board with the shape of the Palestinian map is being attacked by many kinds of tools and nails.
The white board represents the Palestinian land that is being divided by the Occupation, land confiscation, and the separation wall.
The students made wooden parts of a wall to resemble the separation wall, and on both sides they wrote letters from Palestinian families who became separated and disconnected by the wall. The exhibition visitors can write on the wall and even can destroy it if they want.
This piece was located in the school corridor which leads to another installation about the Palestinians’ Right of return back to their homes and land of 1948.
This installation is about the Palestinian right to return back to their homes and land in the year 1948. The students collected 57 keys, most of which are the original keys belonging to families living now in the refugee camps. The number 57 stands for the numbers of years from year 1948 to year 2005.
They hung the keys in a room made of white fabric. This room has two openings which took the shape of a key hole, and written on it the United Nation Resolution 194 which gives the right for the Palestinians to return back to their occupied homes and land in the year 1948.
The students have been noticing that the Martyrs’ monument, which is located beside their school, is being visited only once a year for ten minutes on Martyrs’ day.
In order to get the attention of the people to this monument and what it stands for, the students wrapped the monument with black fabric to the maximum level they could reach.
