Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip takes a single family farm as a prism throughwhich to examine the effects of systemic violence, war, and occupation alongthe Gaza–Israel border. Malkit Shoshan draws on many years of research incollaboration with Amir Qudaih and his family to assemble a non-linear narrativeof the daily realities of life in Gaza, comprising family stories, maps, land deeds,spatial analysis, WhatsApp messages, photographs, recipes, and more. Followingthe structure of a lexicon, disparate elements ranging in scale and materiality sittogether, all registering the intertwining of everyday life with geopolitical historiesand regimes of control.First presented at the 2021 Venice Biennale, where it was awarded the SilverLion, the project initially halted and then expanded and deepened in the wakeof 7 October 2023. In the intervening time the farm has been levelled by the IDF.The first part of this book has consequently become an archive, and the second,in which many of the same themes are revisited, questions how we can talk aboutGaza’s present and future amidst genocide.
