Galerie Claude Lemand

STEVE SABELLA,
 The Great March of the Return, 2019. Photo.
 The Great March of the Return, 2019. Video.

Donation Claude & France Lemand 2019.
Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris.
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The Great March of Return, 2019.

1. Photo.
Printed on diasec mounted on alu­minium, 200 x 200 x 3,5 cm. Signed ans num­bered by the artist. Edition of 6 + 2 AP.

The Great March of Return is a col­lage including over one thou­sand pho­tographs cap­tured by five Palestinian jour­nal­ists from Gaza of the crowds who have gath­ered every Friday since March 2018 to end the Israeli occu­pa­tion. These images are con­trasted with photos taken of outer space merging the her­met­i­cally sealed Strip with infinity, cre­ating a mon­u­mental “pre­sent-day fresco” demon­strating a nation’s eternal fight for lib­er­a­tion.

Photo jour­nal­ists : Atieh Darwish, Mustafa Mohamad, Majdi Fathi, Mohammed Asad, Ashraf Amra.

2. Video.
10’. Sound : Gaza Suite, orig­inal com­po­si­tion by Ghazi Barakat.