b. 1966 in Gaza, Palestine. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Biography
Taysir Batniji's work draws as much on the artist's personal memories as on the turbulence of history and the present. His multidisciplinary practice – drawing, installation, sculpture, performance, photography and video — has a metaphorical, poetic dimension. Through his exploration of the private and the public spheres, of displacement and obstruction, memory and disappearance, Taysir Banaji presents a shifting definition of his own identity, which has been shaped geographically and culturally by both the Middle East and the West.