Randa Maddah
In View




The film In View shot from the rooftop of her house in Majdal Shams, through a complex construction of moving mirrors, this video connects both sides of the border, which has cut through Syrian Golan heights since the 1967 Six-Day war. Located on the cease-fire line, residents of Majdal Shams are reminded of this tragic separation on a daily basis. During the war, the majority of the local population was exiled to Syria. Through the configuration of the mirrors, the Israeli and Syrian military infrastructures, which enforce the separation, are placed in the same line of sight, just as the population on both sides of the border are subject to the same oppression. They share an equal sense of lost identity and erased memory. For Randa Maddah, the work represents a fragmented vision of her fragmented self, set against a beautiful landscape that she feels her own.