Ver el mar
Stéphanie Janaina Ver el mar by Stéphanie Janaina was made during her Dar Jacir residency in March of 2022.
Video and audio:Stéphanie Janaina
Voices: Children from the Aida Youth Center Bethlehem, Nicolás Jaar, Huda Kalash and Stéphanie Janaina.
Recorded at Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research, March 2022.
I have a game I enjoy playing with kids, called "What do you see that isn't what it is but you believe it is?". We randomly pick an object and explore all the possibilities it holds. This is how a pen can become a spaceship, a flute, an earring, a telescope, a car lever. However, how does this game function when, everywhere you turn towards, there's a wall? How do you play this game when, despite the desire to see beyond the wall, you shouldn't? Such a wall must be seen as what it is; transforming it into a poetic and imaginative possibility equals silencing and making invisible its reality. Because this wall, like many others, should not exist.
Ver el mar
En el ojo
En el ojo
En el ojo enojo
Nadie mira
Nadie mira
Y siempre se olvida
Lo que no se mira
El agua está hirviendo
Aquí no hay mar que nos contenga
En cada piedra un cuerpo
Dónde está quien nos sostenga
Ese cuerpo pequeñito
Tira piedras por la ausencia
Ese cuerpo pequeñito
Acusado de culpas por su inocencia
Dónde estás tierra del futuro
Que duele mucho este presente
Dónde estás tierra del futuro
Que ese muro juega al inocente