‘Who doesn’t miss their heaven?’

“I miss it. The home is heaven. Who doesn’t miss their heaven?” A Palestinian man, displaced from his home due to Israel’s ongoing devastation against his country, tells the photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab, in a short film on view at Walls Turned Sideways. “We are destroyed. Where do we go? Our whole life became a tent.”

The roughly 30-minute film is part of the traveling exhibition “Between Sky and Sea,” which features photographs taken by Abu Hatab in Gaza since the start of the current genocidal war. The show’s installation is meant to evoke life in a Palestinian displacement camp. A makeshift tent stands in the rear of the gallery. It’s filled with kitchen materials—plates, a teapot, a gas canister, alongside a bed, buckets, and a cooler. Laundry hangs out to dry outside the tent, ab