Martyr project, 2007

2007

"Martyr

You are dead unless we decide otherwise"

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Random death everywhere, there is no security, at any moment, you are a potential martyr whether by the occupation or the futility of others.



Between 2000 and 2007 during the second intifada a large number of martyrs were fallen as a result of the random murder, where lots of normal people were killed during practicing their normal lives. Then posters started to spread on the walls of cities and villages in a large amount,  those posters where really look alike in the design and the text that is placed on them, that made it difficult to distinguish between the martyr of today or the martyr of Two years before.



a simple Poster was designed  in black and white as a form using my face without features and only the word martyr on ... With space so people can interact with.

the work created a state of wonder and astonishment for people who are accustomed to the framed posters of the names of political & religious movements, , and a resistant effects to the martyr even if  he was a child !.


people interacted with the work by writing their own names on the posters as future martyrs as a result of the blind  war & chaos.


during the implementation of the work i was stopped & questioned by many Government security agencies that was thinking  that I belong to some specific  political or forbidden.

movement

more than a thousand posters Was glued  installed in the streets of Ramallah, without any statutory authorization