Ramallah Syndrome is a public intervention by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, and Yazid Anani. It follows up on the work presented by the artists at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In this edition, the artists distributed thirty questions printed on canvas to various coffee shops and restaurants all around the city. The work questions the normality and normalization of life in Ramallah with provocative questions: How to distinguish between having a normal life in Ramallah and normalizing the occupation? Where are Ramallah’s borders? Is Ramallah liberal? Is Ramallah the capital? Is Ramallah under occupation? Is Ramallah New York?
Yazid Anani is an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and Master Program in Planning and Landscape Architecture- Birzeit University, and the current head of the academic council of the International Academy of Art Palestine. His work and research interests are in colonial & post-colonial spaces as well as themes in architecture and power.
Sandi Hilal was born in 1973, in Bethlehem, Palestine. She is an architect and researcher in trans-border policies of daily life at the University of Trieste, Italy.
Alessandro Petti was born in 1973 in Pescara. He is an architect and researcher in urban studies at the University Institute of Architecture of Venice, Italy.
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