Refugee Heritage by DAAR | Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022-23

Decolonizing Architecture Art Research (DAAR) is a collective that develops spatial interventions, pedagogical platforms and conceptual speculations at the intersection of art, architecture and politics.

Refugee Heritage is a research project that proposes heritage as a form and tool of resistance. It draws on DAAR’s nomination for the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem in Palestine to be registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the installation, a series of free-standing, large-scale light boxes feature nighttime photographs of the camp, offering atmospheric, almost romantic, portraits of the streets.

The photographs are juxtaposed with a series of photographic books, depicting fourty-four now destroyed villages of origin of the refugees, accompanied by a voiceover that tells the related stories of displacement.

Displayed at 📍Admin Block, Aspinwall House as part of Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

Video Lab Support- Kiran Nadar Museum of Art