The American-Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot dismantled a shipping container, which once served as an Israeli settler caravan and was later used as a Palestinian construction site office, into eleven cross-sections. In this way, he revealed layers of steel, plaster, insulation, wires, carpets and a mattress.

The container as a transnational symbol of global trade can be read as a complex palimpsest of power and trade in the Middle Eastern context. Layered with history and patina, it bears traces of its development from container to caravan to construction site office: An expansive installation in the festive season that thematises home, territorial claims, border demarcation and thus also homelessness and exclusion.

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