The work of Taysir Batniji, a Palestinian artist born in Gaza shortly before the 1967 war and the Israeli occupation, is tainted with manifestations of impermanence and itinerancy, belonging and uprooting, personal memories and historical events. Engaging in a number of different formats, including drawing, installation, photography, video and performance, Batniji has developed a strong, coherent body of work, which observes and treats with a certain sense of poetry, oneirism and sometimes acridity, the topics of migration and identity. Rooted in social and concrete realities, his work stretches the frame of documentary practices to question methods of depiction and narrative making. As Batniji states, “my works are perhaps less concerned with a specific topic or situation, and moreover an inquiry into representation itself” in a way that aims to explore and demystify the liminal space between reality and its representation.