ABSTRACT
Under the theme of architectures of hiding, the installations herein described record and transcribe silenced layers of history. Today, the city of Lifta in the Al-Shami Valley is fighting a development plan decontextualizing its structures and neglecting its history as an occupied territory since 1948. The “6036 plan,” in fact, proposes alienated programs, such as a boutique hotel, concealing original histories and using architecture to serve political agendas. This installation proposes a new method to unveil a hidden history by translating the experience of displacement through a series of redesigned ruins and the curation of a return journey, which ends with transcription. The occupation has fragmented the history of Lifta by forcibly evacuating its residents, denying them their right to return. Ruined homes are reconstructed to reinstate their missing or concealed history, turning them into nodal spaces of resistance. Models are used as casts tracing voids, incorporating the landscape of the city with narratives of the owners in exile. The recording of history takes place through the process of fragmenting objects and reconstructing them into a space of recording, creating a machine for the regeneration of memories.
