Taysir Batniji, "Just in case #2", 2024, 253 prints on paper, pencil on wall, 21 x 29.7 cm each. Courtesy of the artist and the Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg.
Time holds a central place in Taysir Batniji's artistic practice. Born in Gaza — a place that raises more questions than answers, especially today — Batniji approaches its harrowing reality with both power and tenderness. For him, time is not only a theme but a raw material: stretched, condensed, deployed, or folded into his works like an elastic substance. In his solo exhibition "Just in Case," now showing at the Sfeir-Semler Gallery in downtown Beirut, Batniji examines the double-edged nature of time.For an artist from Gaza, time is elusive and confiscated, perpetually fleeting as everything in Gaza seems destined to vanish. Yet it is also interminable, frozen in the endless cycles of violence that have plagued Palestine since 1948. This paradox creates a sense of reliving the same nightmare without the possibility of...
Time holds a central place in Taysir Batniji's artistic practice. Born in Gaza — a place that raises more questions than answers, especially today — Batniji approaches its harrowing reality with both power and tenderness. For him, time is not only a theme but a raw material: stretched, condensed, deployed, or folded into his works like an elastic substance. In his solo exhibition "Just in Case," now showing at the Sfeir-Semler Gallery in downtown Beirut, Batniji examines the double-edged nature of time.For an artist from Gaza, time is elusive and confiscated, perpetually fleeting as everything in Gaza seems destined to vanish. Yet it is also interminable, frozen in the endless cycles of violence that have plagued Palestine since 1948. This paradox creates a sense of reliving the same nightmare without the possibility...
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