Around the turn of the millennium, Larissa Sansour was in her late twenties, developing as an artist in New York. She had set out to explore the historical reasons behind the end of Russian Constructivism, an avant-garde art movement of the 20th century.
Meanwhile, thousands of kilometers away, bulldozers were invading her hometown, Bethlehem, during the Second Intifada. From her apartment, the aspiring artist followed the American news while speaking daily with her sister, mother, and friends back in Palestine.
»What they told me was completely different from what I heard in the news,« says Larissa Sansour.
News anchors spoke of ’crossfire,’ Palestinians dying in ’clashes,’ while her loved ones described the violent use of force by the Israeli army, sudden curfews, and bulldozers driving through the city to destroy parked cars.
