Tracing the Line / The Red Castle and the Lawless Line, A legal-architectural fable of extraterritorial transformation, Decolonizing Architecture, Gallery 0047, Oslo. September 25 - October 31, 2010.

In 1993 a series of secret talks held in Oslo between Israeli and Palestinian representatives inaugurated what was later referred to as the “Oslo Process”. As is well known, this process defined three types of territories within the West Bank. Area A under Palestinian control, area B under Israeli military control and Palestinian civilian control, and area C under full Israeli control. When the process collapsed and the temporary organization of the occupied territories solidified into a permanent splintered geography of multiple prohibitions, a fourth place has suddenly been discovered. Existing in between all others - it was the width of the line separating them. Less than a millimeter thick when drawn on the scale of 1:20,000, it measured more than 5 meters in real space.

The project dives into the line then follows it along the edges of villages and towns, across fields, olive and fruit orchards, roads, terraces, homes, a mosque - and finally a large castle recently build. The resulting installation - produced in the framework of the 2010 DA international residency program, is an architectural-legal claim, that inhabits the space of gallery 0047 in the context of the Oslo Architecture Triennale.

My work consisted of 'Tracing the Line', Battir enclave, and
a videowork. 

Decolonizing Architecture was newly named by ARTFORUM as one of top ten most important art projects of the decade.