Jan 18, 2018
“‘First Reduction’ an installation by Oren Arbel and Naom Tabenkin Arbel is inspired by a short story by the contemporary Syrian writer, Zakaria Tamer, in which a large man is surgically remodelled to ensure he consumes a pre-determined rationed air quantity. Their ‘machine’ compresses unfired vessels made of different layers of ‘local’ clay bodies. This survey of crushed iconic archaeological forms speaks of ancient and recent histories of conquest, and the systemic violence associated with assimilation and ‘normalisation’.”
As part of Post Colonialism?