While I was surfing on the Internet I found an
article from a newspaper which talked about a new hotel which will be opened in Palestine on the 11th of March. I
found it interesting and amazing, that is why I decided to talk about it in
this my say.
As we all know, since the construction of the
Apartheid Wall, this created a lot of discussion. However, it did not lead us
into a solution but to more conflicts and tension. The wall has isolated more
than a half million of Palestinians. It was repeatedly rejected by Amnesty
International and The United Nation, but it looks like they can do nothing
about it.
Today, fifteen years after the construction of
the wall, a British artist, known as Bansky, will inaugurate his own hotel called
“The walled Off Hotel” in front of the Apartheid wall. It has ten bedrooms and
each of them includes a work of art from the artist.
The name of the hotel has a metaphoric meaning.
“Walled off” means separated by a wall. Considering that the hotel is in the
other side of the wall, the name explains perfectly the situation of the Palestinians.
The artist and his representative team clarify
that the hotel is not just a work of art but a lodging for clients. Apart from
that, the main objective of the hotel is to attract tourists and travellers to
one of the most abandoned place of Palestine where the economic situation is
terrible because of the control by the Israeli government. According to the
artist, a lot of people said that that location was had the worst view of the
world and they asked him why he would like to build a hotel. He answered that
he wanted to make people realise and see the worst view of the world to react
to it and hopefully do something about it.
It is not the first time Bansky makes such a
works of art in the Gaza Strip. In 2015, the artist went there to paint the
walls of the territory to satirise and to report.
I
think that is a great idea this. The paintings he has made are fabulous; he got
to represent the Palestinians so well in each one of them. But he didn't use
only paintings, he also designed the hotel in such a way that he makes so
obvious the terrible situation there.
These are some
of the paintings and designing made by Bansky:
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