After studying in schools of fine arts in Brussels, Paris, and Tianjin, China, Mali Arun’s audiovisual work combines the world of cinema with contemporary art. Floating between fiction, documentary film and installation, her work examines the space along edges, in motion, and in conflicts. It examines the way in which humans transform space and landscape into territory by building homes on it, corridors for traffic, and borders. She also uses her work to study the body, its geographies, its motions, its desires.
House is the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: abandoned during the 1948 war by its owner, a Palestinian doctor; requisitioned by the Israeli government as "vacant"; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor who undertakes its transformation into a patrician villa... The building site is like a theatre in which the former inhabitants, the neig...
House is the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: abandoned during the 1948 war by its owner, a Palestinian doctor; requisitioned by the Israeli government as "vacant"; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a university professor who undertakes its transformation into a patrician villa... The building site is like a theatre in which the former inhabitants, the neig...