{"product_id":"taysir-batniji-home-away-from-home","title":"Taysir Batniji: Home Away from Home","description":"\u003cp\u003ePalestinian French artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a French  American Photography Commission, a program launched by the Fondation d’entreprise  Hermès in alliance with Aperture Foundation. In  Home Away from Home , Batniji brings  together photographs, selections from family archives, drawings, and writings to explore  the sense of dislocation and the different ideas of “home” experienced by various  members of his family who immigrated to the United States from the Middle East. As  Batniji explains, “The state of ‘between-ness’—cultural as well as geographic—is an issue  that has preoccupied me since I first arrived in France in 1995. Exile, displacement, and  mobility are themes that have driven my work for many years.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The work Batniji has created, during visits to Florida and California, strives to  connect to and understand his “American cousins” through their daily lives, the objects  that surround them, and the homes they have made. The resulting photographs and  portraits, interviews, and sketches from memory of the family homestead in Gaza  question what it means to share a history, even among relative strangers—and what  happens to a sense of the past and of belonging when opting for new identities and new  homes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CMYK Book Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40174251835582,"sku":"9781597114462","price":5686.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9106\/1950\/products\/9781597114462.jpg?v=1757077792","url":"https:\/\/cmykbookstore.com\/products\/taysir-batniji-home-away-from-home","provider":"CMYK Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}