‘They were a fleeting vision one night during the shooting of M. Beautiful. One of them told Selim Nassib in Arabic that she had walked from Gaza to become a transsexual in Tel Aviv. I called her La Belle de Gaza. With my camera, I looked for her everywhere.’
In her latest work, Yolande Zauberman tries to track down a mysterious trans woman who allegedly walked from Gaza to Tel Aviv, and through her evokes the ever-present questions of displacement and layers of oppression faced by trans people in certain parts of the world.