Being the negative

Being the negativeBasel 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

many of which were acquired in an intense period of activity during the colonial era by the museum’s founding director

“A haunting drama of a Taiwanese family’s efforts to rise out of poverty

from Ottoman Turkey to medieval Germany and Renaissance Italy

It talks about the changes in his creation and life and the myths that have influenced the millennium to this day

‘In his project Let Me Be Your Dictionary Saliou Traoré (researcher Fine Art 2004–2005) examines contingent

thoughtfully designed by Jordi de Vetten and Susu Lee in close collaboration with Martens himself

to see in the dark

my father would take me to the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam and we’d sketch the elephants together

For over 50 years

BRACKISH WATERS is a similar waystation

as well as his involvement in the Destruction in Art Symposium

and economic forms