Rafat Zrieq
Video Installation
In Imam, Palestinian Arab Israeli artist Rafat Zrieq turns his lens toward Holocaust survivors – not to document, but to listen. Entering the vast terrain of Jewish memory, he chooses restraint, seeking not to represent the Other but to make space for them. His act of quiet listening is not passive. It is a demand for mutual recognition: “I acknowledge your wound – do you see mine? “Against the monologic weight of institutional memory, Zrieq proposes a different model: not testimony as a one-way telling, but dialogue as shared presence. As a Palestinian in the space of Holocaust remembrance, he asks not to be erased – but to be seen. This exhibition is a call to rethink memory as a meeting place – where pain is not compared but recognised, and where the possibility of shared humanity begins.
Curator Dr. Eli Bruderman
The video installation will be presented as part of the symposium “Common Ground: Deconstructing Walls – A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue”. For more information and registration, please visit:
