"Between the Door and the Dust"

“In one minute, the entire life of a house is ended. The house as a casualty is also a mass murder, even if it is empty of its inhabitants. A mass grave of raw materials intended to build a structure with meaning, or a poem with no importance in time of war.”
 — Mahmoud Darwish, The House as Casualty, translated by Catherine Cobham

Between the Door and the Dust presents Dr Gil Mualem-Doron’s examination of domicide—the deliberate destruction of homes and the worlds they sustain—across the history of Israel-Palestine, from the 1948 Nakba to the West Bank occupation and the genocide in Gaza.

The exhibition features:

• A film installation co-created with a teenage Palestinian girl whose grandmother’s house near Jaffa was occupied and destroyed in 1948. The film is projected on hundreds of Gauze bandages imprinted with the names of Palestinian and Israeli infants under the age of one.
• Villa in the Jungle - a real state, a project exploring West Bank “home-upgraders” settlers and the dystopian dream of re-settlements of Jewish Israelis in Gaza. The film mash-up short interviews with settlers taken from a real estate company website, news reports and documentation by Israeli NGO’s of the atrocities in the occupied West Bank. 
• Short video interviews, taken in Na’amod and Mineged demonstrations with British Jews opposing Israel’s Gaza genocide, occupation, and apartheid policies.
   

UN experts have described the destruction of over 100,000 structures in Gaza, affecting 78% of all buildings, as domicide. Between 1947 and 2021, the International Committee Against House Demolition (ICAHD) reports more than 175,000 Palestinian homes demolished in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

Drawing on Posthuman and New Materialist perspectives, the exhibition highlights how violence extends beyond human suffering, impacting the material, ecological, and social worlds that sustain life. Echoing Darwish’s The House as Casualty, homes are portrayed as vessels of memory, relationships, and futures; their destruction disrupts entire networks of meaning and belonging.

Entry Fee: £5 (At the door)

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