distant suffering XVIII | the nakba 1948 - 2018
Hans Overvliet spent 40 days - starting April 24, 2018 – charting 417 destroyed Palestinian villages / towns with the name, both in Latin and in Arabic script, the geographical location, the number of inhabitants in 1948 and a photo from the remains of that village / town.
He poured that information into 417 obituaries and stored them in a steel archive cabinet.
Overvliet also made a video of his computer screen, which shows his search strategy, i.e. all the actions that led to each individual obituary.
In 2025 he made a video with all the black and white photos used in the obituaries. On behalf of an exhibition around 80 years of freedom in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0qf1u_ledA&ab_channel=hansovervliet.
