Hole in the Wall is a video of 2 minutes, composed of a suite of various short-sequences in which I recite the text Fi Bayti Ommi, written by the palestian poet Mahmoud Darwish. In each sequence, the voice and clothes are changing but the text stays as the original one.
Fi Bayti Ommi is a vibrant dialogue betwen the poet himself and his own image when, back to his mother’s home, he sees with new eyes his youth’s portrait hanging on the wall. Because of the unique voice of its author in the contemporary arab world and because of its concept of alterity, this monologue was the most appropriate for this project. In Hole in the Wall, the multiplication of identities within one self and one coherent language, is the continuation of my work and artistics statements, started with the serie From Right to Left, about the audio and video transcription of divided identities in selfportraits.