We Are with You in the Night (2008) is a neon sign based on a 1970s Italian graffiti inscription, which expressed support for political prisoners. The word “night,” which originally referred to prison, also refers to underground forms of resistance. Written here in Arabic, the inscription alludes to the blackouts that have rendered the life of Palestinians in Gaza exceedingly difficult. The nights on which even the generators no longer work for lack of fuel are a metaphor for a state of isolation that must be terminated, a realm of darkness that must be illuminated.

The second neon sign Divide the Division (2008) is infused with a critique concerning the partition of the country into two separate entities – Israel and Palestine. The flashing neon presents once the sentence translated in Arabic and once in Hebrew, but the sentences in the two languages have a slightly different nuance in meaning because translation itself functions here as aform of violence. It is an invitation to draw new lines – an urgent necessity in a conflict that seems to have no solution