Untitled, Addam Yekutieli

 

WHAT USED TO BE THE SKY IS NOW MURK
HELD TOGETHER BY CLOUDS OF DUST AND DEBRIS
EVERYWHERE, BUT ESPECIALLY HERE
REINHABIT YOUR BODY AS IF IT WERE A LAND UNIMPEDED
EVEN IF JUST FOR A MOMENT OF LIGHTER BREATHING BEFORE REJOINING THE DESCENT

ALL THAT’S LEFT LINGERS
RELENTLESS AND CYCLICAL AND BUREAUCRATIC
EACH RATIONALIZATION AND LAUNDERING OF IT MAKE OUR VISION PROGRESSIVELY DIMMED

WITH THE OPEN SEA CLOSING IN
EACH RETURN AND DEPARTURE OF THE WAVES A REMINDER OF THIS EXPANSIVE BORDER

NO WAR ON MEMORY CAN TRULY GO UNRECORDED
OR WITHOUT A WITNESS THAT REMEMBERS
WITH ALL THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES ABOUT OURSELVES

IN THIS LIMINAL SPACE OF IMPOSED AIRLESSNESS
NEGOTIATING WHAT CAN BE CHRONICLED AND DREAMED AND EXPERIENCED

THE LAND IS A BODY BEING DISMEMBERED
HOLDING THE WEIGHT OF ORIGINAL SINS THAT’VE MUTATED THROUGHOUT GENERATIONS
EACH ITERATION REFINING ITS APPARATUS AROUND THOSE STILL LIVING

AND THE TREES HAVE BEEN UPROOTED, THE CROPS COVERED WITH RUBBLE
RENAMED AND RETOLD AND RESIDING WITHIN BLIND SPOTS IN PLAIN SIGHT
CLEARED AND CLEANSED AND STERILIZED

OF HISTORIES
FALLING INTO EACH OTHER OR IMPLODING INTO THEMSELVES

THIS IS A CALL OF DESPERATION, A CALL OF EXTENDED DISBELIEF
IT ECHOES THROUGH THE CREVICES CAUSED BY CRUELTY AND POVERTY OF IMAGINATION
MOMENTUM OF FORCE CAN ONLY SUSTAIN THROUGH THE INERTIA THAT WE MAINTAIN
EVEN WHEN THEY APPEAR AS AN AUTONOMOUS ENTITY OF INDEPENDENT WILL AND NATURE

 

 

Written in response to Close, Closed, Closure // Seger by Ram Loevy. 

“In 2002, director Ram Loevy completed a multi-year documentation of the closure imposed on Gaza. The film examines daily life under closure, responses within Israel, and the internal struggles surrounding it, offering insight into why the violent reality that emerged in the region came to be perceived as inevitable.” 

[60 min, no overall subtitles, Heb + Ara (subtitled to Hebrew)]

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Addam Yekutieli (Fáros Fellowship 2025) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Israel-Palestine whose work explores cross-cultural encounters, memory, and the entanglement of historical and personal narratives.

אדם יקותיאלי (אמן פארוס 2025) הוא אמן רב־תחומי הפועל בישראל–פלסטין, שעבודתו עוסקת במפגשים בין־תרבותיים, בזיכרון ובשזירה של נרטיבים היסטוריים ואישיים.