Nezar Alkujok
above: Off the Chilean Coast Among local boats, the vessel is anchored at the far end of its circuit, half a world from the shore its cargo came from. It holds the largest Palestinian community outside the Arab world.
The Global Itinerary The circuit follows the geography of exile, calling at the Palestinian communities formed by displacement, from the Levant and the Gulf across the Atlantic to Chile, bending toward the ancient ports where Gaza’s histories were once carried and found.
Awdah (The Return) From the deck, the vessel makes its final approach to Gaza’s rebuilt port in a free Palestine, its hold full with everything salvaged and everything the Sufras of its tour gave it, each fragment now returned to the coordinate from which it was taken.
NEZAR ALKUJOK is a Bahraini- Canadian artist and architectural designer working with temporary, mobile and adaptive architectures as frameworks for cultural exchange. His University of Toronto M. Arch thesis received the Kuwabara-Jackman Thesis Gold Medal.
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