carlier | gebauer is pleased to present Dor Guez‘s recent project 40 DAYS for the first time to the German audience. The exhibition premiered at ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas and then travelled to The Mosaic Rooms, Al- Qattan Foundation, London.

Guez’s  heritage is deeply routed in the history of the Middle East, he was born to a Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian family. His work focuses on depicting the history and experiences of the Christian Palestinian minority, a dispersed community whose voices and experiences have been marginalized by the prevailing narratives of the region. Guez’s work  explores contemporary art roles in provoking questions about history, nationality, ethnicity, and personal identity. Guez‘s practice includes  photographic and video techniques, scanned archival images, which he calls “scanograms”, and video installations, which are at once documentary, testimonial and experimental films.

40 DAYS is a multi-channel video piece and photographic series about the destroyed gravesites in the Christian Palestinian cemetery in the city of Lod (previously known by its Arabic name of Al-Lydd). The images originate from Guez’s ongoing project: The C.P.A. (Christian-Palestinian Archive), a growing collection of archival documents from the Palestinian diaspora. In a publication devoted to the project Guez describes the project during a conversation with Mitra Abbaspour, associate curator of photography at Moma: