Scraping the Skin
John Hill
28. abril 2016
Al-Hussein Palestinian refugee camp, Amman, Jordan, 2016 (Photo via pejac.es)
Through the simplest of means, Barcelona-based street artist Pejac has been leaving his distinctive imprint on the buildings of Al Hussein, a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan.
The camp was established in the late 1940s to provide shelter to the refugees who fled or were expelled during the Palestinian exodus. Now it is one of 10 such camps in Jordan, a country that is currently home, according to Pejac, to over 2 million Palestinian refugees.
The artist describes his silhouettes on the sides of buildings as "Scraping the skin of Al Hussein's walls to tell the story of a people." Throne, one of four interventions in the refugee camp, shows a man perched calmly yet precariously on a chair facing an excavator across some rubble.
Pejac states:
"With these four small interventions I am trying to tell a minimalistic story about the Palestinian refugees in Al-Hussein. By removing small areas of the 'skin' of the houses I want to transform the paint chipping, produced by the passage of time, into evocative landscapes and transmit the pride of its inhabitants through the walls.
Al-Hussein Palestinian refugee camp, Amman, Jordan, 2016 (Photo via pejac.es)
Al-Hussein Palestinian refugee camp, Amman, Jordan, 2016 (Photo via pejac.es)
Visit the artist's website and his Instagram feed to see more of Pejack's images from Al Hussein.