Bypass, 2014

 
Venues: Digital Art Center, Holon, and Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil 
 
Guez's set of slides is comprised of sequential images of a road trodden daily by Palestinians leaving their village on their way to Jerusalem to earn a living, and then returning again to their villages at the days end. This road navigates around the separation wall. This daily trek, almost a perfect parallel to the concrete scar of the separation wall, is built of the living footsteps of menial existences. Guez's gaze is directed downward, to the ground, watchfully tracing each footstep, testimony of all those who have walked before him. The work serves as testimony to the survival of people who found themselves locked up behind a wall.