Fire from Afar

Over a period of seven years, artist Nir Evron repeatedly returned to the viewing platform of the Anzac Memorial, located some 500 meters east of the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. From there, he filmed kites tracing circles across the sky, indifferent to territorial boundaries. Following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and the subsequent devastation of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military offensive, Evron assembled this footage into the film Fire from Afar. Beginning with the history of gauze, a voice-over traces the entangled histories of materiality, violence, and image production.