Multimedia installation in 2 parts

It hasn’t been a while since a reporter tweeted from an Israeli settlement built on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip, a snapshot taken from Israeli youth gathered to watch the brutal bombardment of Gaza City as if they were watching some festive fireworks.

The image shook the world and confirmed the inequality of a war and occupation that has been going on for decades, and the inhuman behavior of these young viewers, which can only show the systematic brainwashing of an oppressive regime that raises and educates oppressors alike.

We, in front of our TVs, our cellphone screens, and monitors, are viewers too if we don’t do anything effective to stop this massacre. 
The installation deals with the notion of viewing, spectatorship, and virtual (activism & protests) and tends to question such activities and their sociopolitical effectiveness.

Part One: Viewers [Live Spectators] Video Sculpture 
Video: “Fireworks on the hill” is a collage of videos broadcast/uploaded online by various sources, often with live comments from the viewers who recorded them.
Tiny model figures are installed on the hill model facing a mini-beamer or a digital screen, watching the looped video.

Part Two: Viewers [virtual supporters] | Sculpture
An empty billboard in the middle of nowhere, the sculpture is based on a logotype I designed in 2008 for online presence and raising awareness on the subject on social media, back then. The hollow metal structure holding the shiny plexiglass typography highlights a contrast between reality on the ground and the graphics used virtually, in an attempt to translate a paradox into physical space.