This work is being offered for sale as part of the Artists Supporting Palestine initiative. 100% of the sale price will go directly to Medical Aid for Palestinians or the Sameer Project (the buyer can decide). If you would like to purchase the work, please send an email to: info@schroeder-andreas.com. Link

"This artistic work is dedicated to Gaza and the people of Gaza.

A fragment in the contours of Gaza. The fragment of a multi-layered, painted-over and sprayed-over identity, removed from its context, isolated from the rest of the world. The many layers tell stories of diverse experiences and events, of displacement, oppression and violence, of attempts at overwriting and erasure, but also stories of humanity and love, of the struggle for survival and the struggle for one another.

I worked on the fragment, scraping away layers and exposing others, leaving some untouched, others remaining hidden, digging here, scratching there. Thinking of Gaza, it was an emotional and painful process. When I think of Gaza, I feel desperate and helpless, angry and sad. How must the people there feel? They tell us, reporting daily, sharing their experiences with us, their blood and tears, their destroyed homes, their murdered children, the constant threat from above, from the side, the hunger and fear from within, and the experience of being left alone, isolated. But they also share their laughter, their incredible vitality and love in the face of destruction, their songs and dances and their hope and strength and beauty, their precious souls.

Gaza reveals the consequences of fanatical fantasies of superiority and claims of ownership, of racism and ideology, as bluntly revealed and mercilessly practiced by the extreme right-wing government in Israel. It reveals our failure, the failure of the international community, of international law, and of universal human rights. It reveals the hypocrisy, especially of Western states, which otherwise hold human rights in such high regard, but make an exception for Gaza. But it also reveals true humanity and the will to live, it reveals the power of culture, of music and art. And it reveals a new force of solidarity and resistance against the logic of dehumanization and ignorance."