A Day in the Life. Young Palestinian Artists in Gaza Now

Twelve young Palestinian artists, either resident in Gaza or recently arrived in Europe, lend their gaze to create a narrative suspended between roots and distance, memory and the present. Through videos, photographs, installations, and a cinema space, the exhibition A Day in the Life presents fragments of complex lives, transforming individual experience into a universal language. Rejecting the reductive representation of conflict and the spectacularization of pain, the exhibition focuses on the micro-details of human beings and their capacity to resist and persevere in everyday life, exploring the subtle boundary between intimate experience and historical testimony. Through writing, the recovery of photographs, home videos, and family archives, the artists construct a personal memory intertwined with the collective dimension.
Oral history practices and the use of sensorial elements—ashes, perfumes, symbolic objects—become devices for overcoming destruction and transforming routine under siege into narratives of dignity. Places of origin and native villages are removed from pure geographical measurement to be reconstructed as maps of affection and spirit. A Day in the Life thus becomes a visual investigation of the dualities that mark life: light and darkness, hope and fear, strength and fragility. Trauma and rubble are sublimated into a poetic visual universe, where art does not seek to escape the darkness, but rather builds a new relationship with light, establishing itself as an act of resistance and healing.