When Tomorrow Arrives We Will Love Life
Hamiltonian Artists•Apr 11, 2024 — May 04, 2024
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Titled after Mahmoud Darwish’s poem A State of Siege (2002), Abed Elmajid Shalabi’s exhibition presents new works that confront the realities of modernization in the post-oil Arab world, leaning into the question of the future.
Shalabi’s material vernacular ranges from fragile ceramics to commercial concrete. Castings of vehicular and industrial objects like construction truck seats, gas pumps, shock-resistant rubber mats, and truck beds function as emotional provocations—interrogating the illusions of progress, safety, and direction that have been prescribed by the Western gaze. By exposing surface cracks, emptiness, and other moments of vulnerability, Shalabi pushes against the speed of modernity and the ways in which its false promises alter our connection to the body, gender, and self.
Shalabi’s abstracted, site responsive installation reflects a new exercise in experimentation. Rather than directing viewers…
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When Tomorrow Arrives We Will Love Life
Hamiltonian Artists•Apr 11, 2024 — May 04, 2024
Press Release
Titled after Mahmoud Darwish’s poem A State of Siege (2002), Abed Elmajid Shalabi’s exhibition presents new works that confront the realities of modernization in the post-oil Arab world, leaning into the question of the future.
Shalabi’s material vernacular ranges from fragile ceramics to commercial concrete. Castings of vehicular and industrial objects like construction truck seats, gas pumps, shock-resistant rubber mats, and truck beds function as emotional provocations—interrogating the illusions of progress, safety, and direction that have been prescribed by the Western gaze. By exposing surface cracks, emptiness, and other moments of vulnerability, Shalabi pushes against the speed of modernity and the ways in which its false promises alter our connection to the body, gender, and self.
Shalabi’s abstracted, site responsive installation reflects a new exercise in experimentation. Rather than directing viewers…
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