Firas Thabet

Born in North Gaza

Displaced in central Gaza

This war has produced ideas, one million ideas. All we do during the war is think, we spend our time thinking.

Each work needs an idea, and the idea needs fuel. Perhaps the war in Gaza, or the tragedy and drama of this war, is the fuel for each idea. Perhaps each idea requires at least one dramatic event. Every event is an idea. Every child that dies, each person’s search for food, is another idea. We do not wake up in the morning and say, I will start thinking now, events force us to think. Events that force upon us thought, and are the birth of something new.

The proposed location for his exhibition is the city of Jenin’s refugee camp. Jenin, in the West Bank, has been subjected to attacks by the occupation similar to those on Gaza. Firas Thabet’s works express the “Palestinian cause” in all its forms. Themes of resistance, struggle, culture, Palestinian symbols, ideologies, revived ancient ideas, seasons, Palestinian sorrow, Palestinian joy, Palestinian families, everything related to Palestine and the Palestinian cause is part of this exhibition.

Firas Thabet is an artist, novelist, and poet.