Cemetery of Martyrs, 2021
Commissioned and shown at VO Curations in London, uk.
This installation attempts to circumvent this barrier by using the white cube as a neutral zone where the works can remain in transit on their way to Haifa. These rubbings were sent to Haifa, from London, as a way to bypass the barricade of transference from Beirut to Haifa.
“Do you know what homeland is? It is where nothing like this happens.” —Ghassan Kanafani, Returning to Haifa (1969)
These rubbings of the martyred Ghassan Kanafani’s grave were made on July 1th 2021, almost 49 years since he was assassinated alongside his niece, Lamis, in Beirut, Lebanon.