Year of participation

2025

Tamar and Taha, artists and life partners, come from the same region but from vastly different social, ethnic, and political positions. Tamar, part of Israel’s Jewish majority, and Taha, a Palestinian minority — despite their differences, they share a profound sense of alienation within their shared home.

Their joint project takes place in Germany — a country that is not merely a physical location, but a dense symbol of collective trauma, Holocaust memory, displacement, reconstruction. Germany is the place where their histories intersect: Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to build a State , and Palestinians who became refugees as a result. This encounter highlights the tragic dynamic of the victim becoming the oppressor, and invites deeper reflection on cycles of exile, loss, and inherited pain. In exploring the concept of “border,” they seek to reveal the invisible yet deeply embedded boundaries between them — boundaries of language, identity, memory, and public discourse. They examine the tension between attachment to land, collective history, and personal experiences of estrangement. Their presence in Germany allows Tamar and Taha a space where art becomes a tool for dismantling and re-examining the physical, cultural, and political borders that shape their lives. Being on a charged yet foreign land enables them to step outside their immediate reality — not as an escape, but as a mode of inquiry. Through their shared yet divergent perspectives, they engage in a layered dialogue on identity, estrangement, and what it means to create in the midst of an ongoing conflict.