The watchtower has always stood to freeze the urban and architectural boundaries of a people, either to protect or to control a territory it has appropriated.
Thus, the vestige of a tower, at first glance, seems suspended in time, split into two parts, two wall sections. One casts the other into shadow, into oblivion, despite their necessity to be unified/connected to ensure stability.
The wall seems to crumble, to dissipate, or to spread. The ruin thus takes on an urban form, underlining the expansion of a people over a territory. More precisely, it evokes the territory of Israel controlled by the army, forbidden to the Palestinian people. Architecture here becomes a physical and identity-based barrier pushed to the extreme.
The left wall thus symbolizes Palestinian territory, like a wall (recalling those of the Gaza Strip), absorbed by the shadow of Israeli lands, gradually destroyed. The experience of disintegration seems to burst forth. The right wall evokes the land of Israel, revealing the madness of certain sages attempting to reclaim the condemned land. In the half-light, the memory of a land emerges, tracing the contours of Gaza, enclosed in the sorrow of concrete veils and towers.
Position takes form in the suspended watchtower, recalling Bentham’s panopticon as an architecture of surveillance and control. The fragmented wall echoes the Israeli–Palestinian barrier, where architecture enforces domination by freezing territorial limits.
This Artwork has been awarded at the last Salon Des Beaux ARts in Paris ( 2025-drawing section)
