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"Fallujah began its life as a collaboration with writer Dr. Jonathan
Holmes who recorded eyewitness accounts of the invasion of Iraq.
Fallujah became the epitome of human suffering and military omnipotence
and powerlessness. It formed the epicentre of the violent and enduring
conflicts between Iraqi resistance fighters and American soldiers in
2003. Our work deals specifically with the consequences caused by the
invasion as well as the extreme damage in the lives of people who reside
in the war-afflicted country and how the media censorship distorted our
vision of the conflict. In an attempt to communicate the experience we
used objects of real artefacts from everyday life, such as chairs,
hospital beds, clothes and shoes, or objects from combat zones such as
stretchers, bunks, ambulances, first aid kits, or water canisters – the
series also includes technical devices such as microphones and cameras
used by the banned foreign media, in attempt to communicate the
atrocities. I think the fact that our research was not fictional
documentary (our collaborators were actually on location), nor the
objects pseudo copies, made the work even more poignant." (Lucy Orta in
conversation with Alex Gawronski)
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