In his first solo museum exhibition in Italy, Dor Guez presented a new work, commissioned by the Museo MAN, about the artist’s grandmother, Samira. The new work is based on a recording Guez took of the sound of tractors destroying his grandmother’s house, 65 years after it was declared a property of “Present Absentees.” This term relates to Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes in British Mandate Palestine before and during the 1948 war, yet remained within the area that became the state of Israel. This new sound installation describes the widespread effect of the 1948 war on the culture, art, and properties of the Palestinian community. The exhibition also included photos, documents and videos that are part of Guez’s ongoing project the Christian Palestinian Archive (CPA), a growing collection of scans of archival documents from the first half of the twentieth century that conserve the personal histories of the Christian Palestinian community.