Paperback. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme have been developing a practice that examines the idea of being in the negative as a principle form of ongoing dispossession, and the call to becoming the negative as a movement towards becoming unbound from colonial capture. First appearing in their work in 2019 and emerging from witnessing the Great March of Return in Gaza and its aftereffects in the Palestinian imaginary, the work is indebted to the multiple forms of resistance and refusal practiced in Palestine every day. In their multidisciplinary practice the space of the negative continues to occupy a principal dimension, asking what it means to resist in impossible conditions, to refuse the terrain as given: What does it mean to breathe where one should not breathe? To emerge from the site of exclusion and extraction unbound? Unfolding through poetics of abstraction and repetition, Being the negative offers Abbas and Abou-Rahmes first theoretical and discursive consolidation of being in, becoming, and embracing the negative.Accompanying their text are images from their works, and drawings by the late Tawfik Abou-Rahme, Ruanne Abou-Rahmes father. These materialize an intergenerational conversation of perseverance and resistance, as with each piece of paper an aesthetic of indebtedness and inheritance is written and rewritten. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Being the negative (Paperback)
Publisher: Bilnaes
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9798991678902
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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