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Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Palestinian artist duo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (both born 1983), are an artist duo. Abbas is a Cypriot of Palestinian-descent visual artist and filmmaker; and Abou-Rahme is an American of Palestinian-descent visual artist and filmmaker.[1][2] They utilize images, audio, text, installations, and performance in their work.[3]
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Basel Abbas was born in 1983 in Nicosia, Cyprus.[4] Abbas worked as a sound engineer for the hip hop trio, Ramallah Underground.[5] He has also worked as an installation artist, video artist, and performance artist.
Ruanne Abou-Rahme was born in 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S..[3]
They work between Ramallah and New York City.[6]
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Abbas and Abou-Rahme first began collaborating in 2009.[7] Their approach to artwork has largely involved sampling both archival material and self-authored materials, in the mediums of sounds, images, text, objects, and performance; and then creating something new. Abbas and Abou-Rahme coined the term "archival multitude," and describe the act of archiving as a performance anyone could participate in.[8]
Their work has been featured in exhibitions at the ICA Philadelphia, Portikus, The Palestinian Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and the ICA London.[9] In 2009, Abbas and Abou-Rahme performed with the hip-hop trio Ramallah Underground, as the Ramallah Syndrome project which was featured in the Palestine Exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale.[5] In 2013 they were also inaugural fellows at the Akademie der Kunst der Welt in Cologne, Germany.[10] Abou-Rahme and Abbas exhibited their work Oh Shining Star Testify (2019/2022) at Hamburger Bahnhof as part of the 12th Berlin Biennale in 2022.[11][2] They exhibited May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2022) at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City; which was part of an ongoing series started in 2020 about Palestinian loss, colonial violence, displacement, and forced migration.[12][13][14][15]
They were award recipients of the Sharjah Biennale Prize (2015) and the Abraaj Prize (2016).[9]
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Artwork series
Publications
- Abbas, Basel; Abou-Rahme, Ruanne (2012). "The Zone: Desire and Disaster in the Contemporary Palestinian Landscape". Printed Matter (19).
- Abbas, Basel; Abou-Rahme, Ruanne (2013). "The archival multitude". Journal of Visual Culture. 12 (3): 345–363. doi:10.1177/1470412913502031 – via Sage Journals.
- <Abbas, Basel; Abou-Rahme, Ruanne (2014). "May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth". In Kholeif, Omar (ed.). You Are Here: Art After the Internet. Corner House. pp. 224–229.
- Abbas, Basel; Abou-Rahme, Ruanne (2021). "If Only This Mountain Between Us Could Be Ground". Theater. 51 (1): 46–51. doi:10.1215/01610775-8824771.
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