What is Unseen.

Installation · 2024

At the heart of the relationship between the colonizer and the land, maps emerge as an abstract tool used to impose control and division. By viewing the land from above, places are reduced to shapes and lines, obscuring the real connections that tie the owner to their land. The colonizer, with an eye elevated above the land, disregards its true essence and uses the "eye of God" to divide the land and transform it into fragmented geography.

In this work, the map is used as a critical tool that reveals this forced abstraction, where the concept of control is deconstructed through threads that mimic invisible divisions. What is unseen here is the essence of the place and the collective memory, while maps and archives remain mere tools that widen the gap between human and land.

The city of Hebron, like other Palestinian cities, has been devoured by the colonial "eye of God," which fragmented the land through an apartheid system that tore the place apart. This system employs artificial intelligence technologies to divide the land and its people into three colors, constantly monitoring and classifying them. In the end, the aim is to erase them from the map—not just with the tools of geography, but with the tools of time, where existence fades like lines on ancient paper.