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Palestinian artist duo
Basel Abbas and
Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Abou-Rahme and Abbas (2006)
NicknameAbbas and Abou-Rahme
TypeArtist duo
FieldsVideo art, installation art, sound art, performance art
WebsiteOfficial website

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (both are 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. They utilize images, audio, text, installations, and performance in their work.

About

Basel Abbas was born in 1983 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Abbas worked as a sound engineer for the hip hop trio, Ramallah Underground. 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..

They work between Ramallah and New York City.

History

Abbas and Abou-Rahme first began collaborating in 2009. 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.

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. 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. In 2013 they were also inaugural fellows at the Akademie der Kunst der Welt in Cologne, Germany. 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. 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.

They were award recipients of the Sharjah Biennale Prize (2015) and the Abraaj Prize (2016).

Artwork series

  • The Zone (2011–ongoing), created with 15 video screens, an installation, digital c-type prints, an online platform, and a publication
  • The Incidental Insurgents (2012–ongoing)
  • And yet my mask is powerful, Part I (2016)
  • May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020–ongoing)

Publications

See also

References

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  2. ^ Mitter, Siddhartha (July 22, 2022). "Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself)". The New York Times. ISSN 1553-8095.
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  7. "Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Palestinian/American, born 1983". MoMA. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
  8. Gutman, Yifat; Wüstenberg, Jenny (2023-02-15). The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism. Taylor & Francis. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-000-64629-0.
  9. ^ "Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: And Yet My Mask Is Powerful". Krannert Art Museum. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  10. García-Antón, Katya (June 16, 2013). "In Focus: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme". Frieze (156).
  11. "Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme". 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
  12. ^ Ramadan, Dina A. (2022-06-01). "Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  13. Mirzoeff, Nicholas (2023-07-19). An Introduction to Visual Culture. Taylor & Francis. p. 2000. ISBN 978-1-000-89158-4.
  14. McNamara, Rea (2021-03-17). "Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Create a Poetic, Web-based Space for Mourning". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  15. Boucher, Brian (2020-12-14). "How a Palestinian Artist Duo's Decade-Long Project About Mourning and Memory Was Transformed by the Pandemic". Artnet News. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  16. García-Antón, Katya (2013-06-16). "In Focus: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme". Frieze. No. 156. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  17. Gallivan, Joseph (March 2019). "Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: New Works". Preview Art Magazine. Retrieved March 23, 2024.

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