Ruins overgrown with greenery on a hill on the western outskirts of Jerusalem - this is how the village of Lifta appears to a stranger. It is a stage for opposing stories and memories of its former palestinian and jewish residents and a symbol for a conflict that flares up again and again as well as its unknown future. Lifta is a traditional Palestinian village and the only settlement that was neither repopulated nor destroyed after the displacement of its inhabitants in 1947-1948.
This photographic work is an experiment in translating the fate of the village and its former residents, with their uncertain future, inevitable loss and ininfluencability into the materiality of the images.
