Artists and researchers of the social and political systems that shape our world, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri focus on revealing their effects on those who live within them. 

The video work What Everyone Knows brings together sixteen clips, each corresponding to a day spent by the artists crossing Palestine and Israel. 

Their wanderings weave a sensitive travelog where the voices of a geographer, an activist, a Bedouin, a former prisoner... all follow one another, each story probing the social, psychological, and political dimensions of daily life, in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Naqab, or Hebron. 

 By giving substance to these realities often relegated to the margins, What Everyone Knows invites us to question dominant narratives and confront the lived experience of Palestinians. 

Presented at the Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015)