Influenced by John Berger's statement of "As long as there are
people who tell the story, the same story, their nation will
continue to survive", Steve presents five Palestinian stories,
of symbolic importance to every Palestinian, in order to evoke
memory. He does this while collaborating with five acknowledged
artists
Kan Yama Kan
(once upon a time)
2005
Installation
of 5 custom made wood boxes, containing five photo
stories
After a deep long night sleep, five stories
emerged from my imagination and dreams. I live in a world of
images that are parts and segments of many buried stories
that struggle all the time to come to light. ... I hope that
the story that lies in the dark space resurrects and is
celebrated again.
I wanted to
create a one to one experience where the viewer is
isolated from the surroundings and starts to travel to
another dimension. By closing one eye,
the round hole in the
middle of the boxes used in Kan Yama Kan acts as a tunnel in
time – Destination
is Palestine. The multidimensional box offers the
viewer to look deep into its three-dimensional space
where photos line up one next to the other. In their
collective, they tell the story of a nation and a land.
