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The newly opened Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem is an active art installation by British graffitist Banksy. It’s a fully functioning art hotel filled to the brim with Banksy’s artwork. The street artist styled the hotel to resemble “an English gentleman’s club from colonial times,” according to a statement, which appears to acknowledge Britain’s historical role in the Middle East, and is filled with Banksy creations that are playful and strongly political.
If you stay at the Walled Off you could find yourself literally sleeping inside a work of art. Here we look into some of the Banksy artworks that you can expect to see inside the Walled Off Hotel.
An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian protester engage in a pillow fight releasing white feathers, like a white dove, representing peace, shot down …
Banksy Walled off Hotel, Bethlehem
The white feathers have many meaning, that of also Angels lost to the sea …
There is an oil paintings of waves lashing against the shore which is littered with life-jackets discarded by refugees …
Banksy, Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem
Banksy, Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem
A fire flickering in the grate glows under a pile of concrete rubble, like a blaze at a bomb site …
Banksy, Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem
A classical bust is engulfed by a cloud of tear gas …
Banksy, Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem
A helium heart balloon floating next to barbed wire in a red presidential suite, perhaps red to signify the blood lost …
Banksy Walled off Hotel, Presidential suite, Bethlehem.
A painting of flowers in a vase behind ugly grids restricting site …
A framed old test card which was usually shown when no programmes were being broadcast spelling “Free Palestine” in chalk, where originally the girl was playing noughts and crosses …
Banksy Walled off Hotel, Cinema, Bethlehem.
Three cupids falling from heaven with emergency oxygen breathe masks, in front of a graffiti stained glass window, indicating perhaps starvation of love …
Banksy, Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem
Security, or encroaching on human privacy, is to the max …
Banksy, Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem
Jesus with a red dot target shoot on his head …
Banksy, Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem
A painting of children using an Israeli army watch tower as a swing ride, the mural to this was on the remains of a house that was destroyed during the 50-day Israeli assault, in the Gaza Strip town in February 2015. Banksy’s famous known image of the peace thrower in the back ground whose Molotov becomes a bouquet of flowers passes over into three frames …
Banksy Walled off Hotel, Bethlehem.
The painting shows a violent upheaval and destruction of peoples lives and homes …
Banksy Walled off Hotel, Bethlehem.
One of the most sombre images is that of three children jumping over the Pearly gates …
To view all the artwork or even stay at the The Walled Off Hotel, the address is 182 Caritas Street, Bethlehem, Palestine and reservations can be made here.
Photo credit Banksy