Heavy Industries

This series of photographs invite us to view a multitude of close ups of encounters between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians wanting to cross the border at Qalandia checkpoint. One of distinctive characteristics of the Israeli occupation is its highly personalized quality and the particular way in which it invades and penetrates the space of the individual.  In this series, the large slab of worn stone that marks the site of exchange becomes the fixed element or prop in this absurd theatre. Imposed on the landscape it demarcates the place, where the ritual of authority is performed and the site of contact with the 'other'.