Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme explained

Basel Abbas and
Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Nickname:Abbas and Abou-Rahme
Type:Artist duo
Fields:Video art, installation art, sound art, performance art
Website:Official 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.[1] [2] They utilize images, audio, text, installations, and performance in their work.[3]

About

Basel Abbas was born in 1983 in Nicosia, Cyprus.[4] Abbas worked as a sound engineer for the hip hop trio, Ramallah Underground.[5] 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.[6]

History

Abbas and Abou-Rahme first began collaborating in 2009.[7] 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.[8]

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.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[12] [13] [14] [15]

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

Artwork series

Publications

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Noor . Tausif . 2022-04-01 . Potential Energy . 2023-11-16 . . en-US . 0004-3532.
  2. News: Mitter . Siddhartha . July 22, 2022 . Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) . . 1553-8095.
  3. Web site: Artist talk with Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme . 2023-11-16 . . en . 0962-0672.
  4. Web site: Abou-Rahme, Ruanne and Basel Abbas . 2023-11-18 . Dia Art.
  5. Book: Hamamsy . Walid El . Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook . Soliman . Mounira . 2013-01-04 . Routledge . 978-1-136-22807-0 . 24 . en.
  6. Web site: Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Palestinian/American, born 1983 . March 12, 2024 . MoMA.
  7. Web site: Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Palestinian/American, born 1983 . March 12, 2024 . MoMA.
  8. Book: Gutman . Yifat . The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism . Wüstenberg . Jenny . 2023-02-15 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-000-64629-0 . 356 . en.
  9. Web site: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: And Yet My Mask Is Powerful . 2023-11-28 . Krannert Art Museum.
  10. García-Antón . Katya . June 16, 2013 . In Focus: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme . Frieze. 156 .
  11. Web site: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme . March 12, 2024 . 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.
  12. Web site: Ramadan . Dina A. . 2022-06-01 . Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth . 2023-11-28 . The Brooklyn Rail . en-US.
  13. Book: Mirzoeff, Nicholas . An Introduction to Visual Culture . 2023-07-19 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-000-89158-4 . 2000 . en.
  14. Web site: McNamara . Rea . 2021-03-17 . Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Create a Poetic, Web-based Space for Mourning . 2023-11-28 . . en-US.
  15. Web site: Boucher . Brian . 2020-12-14 . How a Palestinian Artist Duo's Decade-Long Project About Mourning and Memory Was Transformed by the Pandemic . 2023-11-28 . Artnet News . en-US.
  16. News: García-Antón . Katya . 2013-06-16 . In Focus: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme . en . Frieze . 156 . 2023-11-28 . 0962-0672.
  17. Web site: Gallivan . Joseph . March 2019 . Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: New Works . March 23, 2024 . Preview Art Magazine.

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