Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Until we became fire and fire us (2023-ongoing). Sharjah Biennial 15, 2023. Photo: Shanavas Jamaluddin. Courtesy of the artists. Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Their practice is engaged in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body and virtuality. Across their works they probe a contemporary landscape marked by seemingly perpetual crisis and an endless ‘present’, one that is shaped by a politics of desire and disaster. Their work questions this suspension of the present and searches for ways in which an altogether different imaginary and language can emerge that is not bound within colonial/capitalist narrative and discourse.
Largely their approach has been one of sampling materials both existing and self-authored and recasting them into altogether new ‘scripts’. The result is a practice that investigates the political, visceral, material possibilities of sound, image, text and site, taking on the form of multi-media installations and live sound / image performances.
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