Photo: Mohamed Abusal, tous droits réservés
Beyond Death and Devastation in Gaza - Séminaire avec Mohamed Abusal et Cédric Parizot
Responsables du séminaire : Thomas Pierret et Marine Poirier
Mardi 23 juin 2026, à 14h00, à la Mmsh (Aix-en-Provence), en salle A219, le séminaire de recherche de l'équipe Sciences sociales du contemporain accueillera Mohamed Abusal et Cédric Parizot pour une intervention intitulée “Beyond Death and Devastation. Assessing invisible and intangible loss in Gaza”.
La séance, en anglais, se déroulera également en visioconférence : lien Zoom / ID de réunion : 833 4748 9839 / Code secret : 708741
The extent of the information we are able to access on Gaza does not necessarily mean that we can assess the extent of Israel’s ongoing annihilation of Palestinians since October 7, 2023. The modes of enunciation, the questions, the iconography through which this information documents and communicates about this tragedy focus our attention on the most spectacular and visible aspects of the Israeli violence. Based on interviews, testimonies, and a number of second-hand sources, we propose to take a step aside, and to address less visible and less tangible processes that corrode and decompose Palestinian society and reinforce the annihilation of people's desire to live.
Born in 1976 in Gaza, Mohamed ABUSAL is one of Palestine’s most renowned visual artists, with exhibitions around the world. Since 2000, his work has shed light on the everyday realities of Palestinians while offering alternative and optimistic visions of a better future. In 2002, he co-founded the artist collective Eltiqa, which was featured at Documenta in Kassel in 2022. In 2005, he received the prestigious Charles Aspry Prize for Contemporary Art. A former resident at both the Cité des Arts in Paris and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, his work was included in the exhibition "Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde ” at the Institut du Monde Arabe in 2023. In 2021, he co-founded the Hawaf collective, which is developing a virtual museum for Gaza, the Sahab Museum (musée des nuages). This museum was exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo and in Art Explora in 2024. Mohamed Abusal is currently an artist-researcher supported by the PAUSE Program at the Mucem and Aix-Marseille University (IREMAM).
Cédric PARIZOT is an anthropologist of politics. Research director at the CNRS, he works at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World (Aix-Marseille University/CNRS). His research focuses on mobilities and surveillance in the Israeli-Palestinian spaces, as well as on the scientific benefits of the integration of art into research practices.
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