Taysir Batniji was born in Gaza in 1966. He trained as a painter at An-Najah National University in Nablus before continuing his studies in France at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges and the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée. His Home away from Home was first shown at Aperture Foundation in New York in March 2018, and then as part of Les Rencontres d’Arles in the same year. 

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