Gaza in My Phone

Gaza in My Phone collects the complete drawings made by Lebanese artist Mazen Kerbaj in response to the ongoing campaign on Gaza, termed genocidal by Amnesty International. As early as the 9th of October 2023, Kerbaj started drawing in reaction to the horrors that all of us were – and still are – seeing daily on our screens and posting the images on his Instagram. On the one hand, he draws to bear witness and raise awareness, and on the other hand as a coping mechanism, in an attempt to remain sane amidst the unfolding madness. The straight-to-the-point high-contrast black and white images are often accompanied by striking slogans or a few words describing the events in a personal way, making them easy to grasp, print at home, and stick on walls. The works have been widely shared on social media, allowing tens of thousands of people worldwide to express their own solidarity and to identify with the artist's feelings and positions.

  
From Berlin, a city where solidarity with Palestine has been violently repressed since the beginning of the war, Kerbaj has been chronicling and responding to the harrowing day-to-day news and testimonies capturing the destructive capacity and monumental pain that humans are capable of inflicting on each other. They ask us to stop, look, mourn and cry so that we can go out and continue once again to fight for the living and for life.