Bansky

Abstract

The territory shared by Israelis and Palestinians is one of the most relevant spaces in struggle today. There is a complex dispute around it, in which the relationship to the land and identities are questioned and/or reaffirmed. These struggles occur through violent acts, but also through more subtle battles that respond to different interests, such as convincing international actors of their validity, imposing certain interpretations of history, (re) defining citizenship, or controlling the movement of the population. The walls reflect an attempt to take over the territory, purify it and homogenize it. These photos that we reproduce here also represent a new format in the Documents section of the Journal. These are the photos of Banksy's graffiti on the wall built by Israel in the West Bank, taken from his book Wall and Piece. Through them, Banksy is one of the artists who has sought to question and reprogram the meanings of these cold walls, monuments to exclusion, and turn them into a canvas of protest, a space to dream of other realities.