Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri, artist and art
Born Birth Anastas: Bethlehem; Gabri: Tehran, Palestine; Iran.
The artist lives and works in New York and elsewhere.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Installation art, Video, Sydney Biennale, Documenta Kassel, Sharjah Biennale,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
As artist activists, Anastas and long-time collaborator René Gabri have explored issues of space, politics, language and often, Palestine. In Disorientation II, they presented What Everyone Knows(2006), a video installation that explores the lives lived by Palestinians in occupied Palestine and in Israel…
Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri work together. Anastas writes in fragments, and makes films and videos. She is interested in philosophy, literature, the political and the everyday. Gabri is interested in the complex mechanisms that constitute the world. He works within the folds of cultural practice, social thought and politics…
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Searching for Our Destination
For a period of approximately 20 days, the length of our sojourn in
Ramallah, we engaged with a variety of individuals: shepherds, thinkers,
revolutionaries, street vendors, bus drivers, liars, shopkeepers, widows,
peasants, prisoners, farmers, strikers, activists and artists. Our goal was
to increase our knowledge of the Palestinian situation in a more immediate
way; we did so through learning about the everyday experience of the
people we encountered and about how Israeli measures, particularly in
the West Bank, but also in Israel, suffocate the Palestinians, hinder them
and attempt to destroy their lives…
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