Featured in the Southern Panoramas show of the 18th Festival, Guez talks about his project, the Christian Palestinian Archive, which he founded in 2009. The institution was born from the artist’s research on his own family’s past, after he found photographs of his grandparents’ wedding hidden underneath their bed. Upon inquiring about the context in which those pictures were taken, Guez tells of unveiling a hidden and painful past whose memories the family sought to forget. He speaks of his work as a form of reading History between the lines, looking into the most intimate impressions of his characters for the threads that tie up the narration of events. According to him, photographic archives always reveal new information about a given event. The artist also discusses the assimilation of video by contemporary art.
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