Exhibition Design for Ruanne and Basel
Worked on the exhibition design for this installation, including projections, panel design and lighting.
The Palestinian artists Basel Abbas (b. 1983, Nicosia, Cyprus) and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (b. 1983, Boston, USA), based between New York and Ramallah, have collaborated since 2007 across image, sound, text and performance. Through collecting, sampling and layering of found and self-produced materials, their multidisciplinary practice excavates, activates and resituates stories of violence and disenfranchisement, questioning how the present is shaped, remembered and imagined.
Central to their practice is a non-linear approach to storytelling. Drawing on notions of amnesia and déjà vu, the artists create slippages between past and present, reality and imagination, familiarity and alienation. What the artists describe as “poetics of resistance” emerges through interruptions, repetition and overlap, opening spaces of resonance in which histories do not settle but remain active, unstable and insistently present.