Artists
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
- Basel Abbas born 1983 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Based in New York, USA and Ramallah, Palestine.
- Ruanne Abou-Rahme born 1983 in Boston, USA. Based in New York, USA and Ramallah, Palestine.
Basel Abbas and 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. Largely their approach has been one of sampling materials both existing and self-authored in the form of sound, image, text, objects 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 multimedia installations and live sound/image performances.
- Selected exhibitions
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- 2024
- Solo exhibition, The song is the call and the land is calling, Copenhagen Contemporary & the Glyptotek (Denmark)
- 2024
- Solo exhibition, Only sounds that tremble through us, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Massachusetts, USA)
- 2023
- Solo exhibition, An echo buried deep deep down but calling still, Astrup Fearnley (Oslo, Norway)
- 2022
- Solo exhibition, May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)/Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich, Switzerland)
- “May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth: only sounds that tremble through us” 2020-22
- Photo: Christian Øen
- © Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2023.