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The Jerusalem Project is a futile attempt to overcome spatial limitations and reclaim the city. Relying on collective memory in the absence of personal memory, the act of poring over found images re-generates the city. Documentation used are prints and photographs from 1891 to 1948 coming solely from Western sources. The work deals with Jerusalem as a symbol/point of memory for the Palestinian Diaspora, but also in counterpoint as a Western/Christian construction- an archetype/stereotype of biblical history. Engaging with conflicting view point, the project exposes constructions surrounding the city attempting to reply to them, and the city’s mythic qualities and discourse of absence.