Galway Arts Centre is delighted to present After resurrection, soon: Artist talk by Taïm Haimet as part of the Culture Night 2024 Programme.

Join us for After Resurrection, Soon, an evening of Arabic coffee, discussion, and collective reading of a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, serving as an invitation to exchange thoughts on Gaza.

Children of Darkness

‘This is a battle between the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Between

Humanity and the Law of the Jungle’

Benyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister if Israel, October 17, 2023

‘Gaza has become a graveyard for children’

Antonio Guterres, UN secretary General, November 6, 2023.

As the erasure of Gaza is approaching its year-long continuation, this installation examines the position of the virtual witness, accessing the live streamed images of unimaginable human destruction in real time, uninterrupted, via social media. This radical change in perception, enabled by the technological moment in history we have reached, birthed an unprecedented dystopian experience. The work interrogates the polar opposition between the political language and the documented reality / empathy and an emotional saturation leading to numbness / the evanescent, fleeting nature of virtual images and the concrete materiality of the events on the ground.

The title of the installation is borrowed from the now famous tweet by the Prime minister of Israel at the beginning of the onslaught, and explores it literally, examining the multiple meanings and layers of Darkness, and the dehumanisation of children.

According to the UN, more children have died in Gaza in the first 6 months of war, than in all global conflicts around the world in the past four years combined. They represent the main casualties of the ongoing bombings.