Rani Sharabati PALESTINIAN, b. 1993
Race Toward Oblivion, 2024
Oil on canvas
37 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
95 x 70 cm
95 x 70 cm
In a frenzied race upwards, buildings cling to one another, silently climbing as if to escape the wall below. The higher they rise, the more the ground fades from memory,...
In a frenzied race upwards, buildings cling to one another, silently climbing as if to escape the wall below. The higher they rise, the more the ground fades from memory, forsaking the earth to drown in vertical ascent, where victory is defined by how far one can climb above the depths.
Here, the structures ignore the past, gripping the heights as if elevation itself offers salvation as if the summit is a refuge from the wall that no longer exists in the eyes of those who have climbed beyond it. In this ascent, survival becomes synonymous with forgetting and forgetting becomes a means of escape.
Here, the structures ignore the past, gripping the heights as if elevation itself offers salvation as if the summit is a refuge from the wall that no longer exists in the eyes of those who have climbed beyond it. In this ascent, survival becomes synonymous with forgetting and forgetting becomes a means of escape.
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