Apresentação do livro ‘Voir la Palestine’ de Stefanie Baumann com Chin-Chin Yap autora de ‘Palestine in the air’ e moderação de Avital Barak, seguido de exibição do filme ‘Voyage to Gaza’ de Piero Usberti. Entre a apresentação e a sessão de cinema haverá fingerfood pela Lilas Bitar!

Seeing Palestine: Artistic Counter-Shots de Stefanie Baumann

In Seeing Palestine: Artistic Counter-Shots, Stefanie Baumann invites us to reflect on the political and philosophical dimensions of how Palestine is represented — and more importantly, how it is seen. At the heart of this inquiry lies a question of visibility: who controls the image of Palestine, and what forms of resistance arise in response? As Edward Said powerfully observed, Palestinians have long struggled on two fronts: against their erasure from visibility, and against the reductive stereotypes that dominate global media — the masked Arab, the kufiyya, the stone-thrower — tropes that conflate Palestinian identity with terrorism and violence.To these, we must now add images of Palestinians cast primarily as victims — a visibility that risks reducing lived experience to spectacle, and political struggle to passivity. In the midst of an ongoing genocide in Gaza and across Palestine, these images circulate globally — often stripped of political context, compassion fatigue setting in, empathy reduced to spectacle. How can artists create images that resist this flattening? How can they forge a visibility that unsettles dominant narratives rather than feeding into them?

Baumann’s essay explores these urgent questions through the lens of Palestinian video art and cinema, tracing how artists, from the 1960s to today, have developed a visual language of resistance — one that neither succumbs to invisibility nor reinforces imposed roles of victimhood or violence.

Palestine in the air de Chin-chin Yap

As the first cultural history of Palestinian aviation, Palestine in the Air reveals civil aviation’s role in the “question of Palestine” over the past century. How do Palestinians—as individuals, communities, and as a nascent state—engage with the air? How does their aerial agency inform dominant and counter-narratives of culture and modernity?

Chin-chin Yap is a Singaporean writer and filmmaker. She is co-editor of Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis (2020) and has been published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, The Markaz Review, Digital War, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, The Tax Lawyer, and Art Asia Pacific. She has produced documentary films including Human Flow (2017), The Rest (2019), Ximei (2019), Rohingya (2021) and Animality (2025).