""I pair a photograph of a Palestinian girl from the 1950s, displaced and waiting for food aid from UNRWA, with a looping GIF sent to me by one of my best friends in Gaza. It shows the last meal she has left, and her desperation to feed ten family members with what little remains," says Glorianna. Next to the image, a WhatsApp message reads '[12:36, Gaza/2025] Yousef: I'm okay but losing weight because of famine and starvation.'"
""Glorianna borrows from the same visual textures we also see every day: an overload of violence on social media, not just political but also random acts of violence, gore and bodily harm that has become normalised on a democratised internet platform. This has led way to what Glorianna describes as "living through a hyper-normalisation of genocide violence so constant that it becomes accepted, even ignored".""
Digital images are superimposed onto photographs to create a visual thread between lived and recorded experiences in Palestine. Photographs of a displaced Palestinian girl from the 1950s are paired with a looping contemporary GIF showing a family's last meal and a WhatsApp message about famine. The layering of analogue and digital imagery emphasizes continuity of suffering across generations and borders. Visual textures mimic social media's overload of violence, highlighting a hyper-normalization of genocidal imagery. The work aims to induce reflective pause through photography's stillness. Concerns are raised about censorship, generative imagery, and propaganda obscuring photographic truth.
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