Adam Maghari

Born in 1989, Nuseirat, Gaza

Displaced in Al-Bureij Camp

“Today art will be different. What does art mean in these circumstances where everyday life is dominated by a struggle to survive? What kind of art can address the mess we are living in? This mess makes us question the value of life itself.” Maghari’s work seeks new forms hidden in these dire circumstances.

Akhabeer al-Hait [Tales of the Wall], as Maghari puts it, is a “What’s Next?” vision, based on a new human condition that has emerged. This is a vision where the sustainability of daily life is at the heart of the issue. A perspective on life emerges in which time, movement, space, and place shift between the imagined, the remembered, and the felt, and the material realities of daily life take on a holy new meaning.

Displacement, the lack of the essentials of life, fragmentation, loss, struggles for survival, have forced people to reinvent and reenvision life and a sustainable future. The process of reflecting and questioning these circumstances, the war, what remains of one’s home, memories of the near and distant past, have led to creating the tools and elements of life anew.

Maghari will present a holographic installation where the past and present intertwine: personal memory and history, returning to what remains of one’s home, forcing a process of rebuilding and rearranging the elements of life. Scattered visuals converge, and reality is reappraised.