disturbed horizons, 2024
Disturbed Horizons is a body of work which revisits photojournalistic images of the ongoing genocide in Gaza to extend the time of viewing. Following October 7th, 2023, the media flooded with images and videos of horrific scenes of the genocide in Gaza, most consisting of children’s body parts under rubble and debris. The media allows us to see so much, with little time to really see it. We have the options to scroll, close, glance, zoom, and screenshot for later. As this show opens for viewing a full year after, it asks viewers to re-visit those images and consider the ways we may be de-sensitized to them.
In many ways we don’t deserve to see any of these images—but we have to sit with them, because they are real. We have to learn how to see these images allowing them to impact us beyond our discomfort or guilt. These images are not passive. They reach into our core and ask us to align our actions so as to prevent ourselves from being confronted by such images again. Repetition should not lend itself to adaptation, but instead as chances to revisit the harmful patterns we built into our way of being. We see these images because there is still more we have to work on.
Credits: all images in the show are referenced from the photo journalistic works of Motaz Azaiza and Mosab Shawer.
All funds raised from the show will go towards PCRF (Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund), an organization providing medical and humanitarian aid to children who need it most.
October 7 - November 15, 2024
Sidney Larson Gallery
Columbia College