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All the phrases are collected from various posts and messages exchanged with Basel El Maqosui in the months leading up to this print out.
Many thanks to Humam and Bernd. Produced by Zitto editions, Berlin / Los Angeles, July 2024

The drawings in this collection were all created during the genocidal war on Gaza (oct. 2023 – ongoing) and depict a deliberately confused, black- and-white scenario in which the artist traces, through clear and faded lines, images of refugee camps, tents, conglomerates of displaced people, and lacerated streets, all fused into a dense and highly compelling composition whose abstraction reproduces the looming and constant sense of bewilderment and confusion.

Basel El-Maqousi is a Palestinian artist born in Gaza in 1971.
El Maqousi has more than 25 years of experience as an art teacher at Jabalia Association for Rehabilitation, working with children, particularly those with hearing disabilities.
He is the co-founder, along with Shareef Sarhan and Majed Shaladi, of Shababeek for Contemporary Art, an art space specializing in exhibiting contemporary art that opened in 2009 in Gaza City, which together with the Eltiqaa group provided for several years an essential space for the artistic community of Gaza.