Alke Schmidt


Portfolio


Bad Tidings (Bethlehem, 2002)
Mixed media on canvas; 92 x 77 cm (2003)














Nativity Scene (Bethlehem 2002)
Inkjet print and acrylic on board, 57 x 82.5 cm (2004)







Peace on Earth... (Bethlehem 2002)
Inkjet print; 78 x 82 cm (2003)




Casualty of Occupation
Mixed media installation (2002/2004)





"What is to become of the Palestinians?"
"Oh," Sharon said, "we'll make a Pastrami sandwich of them."
I said, "What?"
He said, "Yes, we'll insert a strip of Jewish settlement, in between the Palestinians, and then another strip of Jewish settlement, right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years time, neither the UN, not the United States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart."


Journalist Winston S. Churchill III, recalling his conversation with
Ariel Sharon in 1973

Installation view at the Salon des Arts, April 2004


April 2002: The impossibility of a State in 141 parts


July 2002: The Oslo Agreement is dead


May 2004: The Separation Wall

All images copyright Alke Schmidt