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LAMIA ABUKHADRA

لمياء ابوخضرا



Works


The hammer seizes its actuality
Not the Sunrise
Oversensitivity
Afterimages
Free As Air
A warning of the emptiness to come
Sunrise in Wadi el-Hummus • Twelve to Sixteen Bodies
To destroy this house... death. An early death.
Mound Studies
limestone
HOW TO CREATE DEEP LONGING
As citrus shrivels it becomes stone
HOW TO SHRIVEL
Six copies of Al Shaab hung like flags
The House on the Hill
You Sat at the Fountain While You Stole the House on the Hill


Talks


JVE Participant Presentation II
I Am Sitting Here Having Visions
JVE Participant Presentation I



Texts


🍊Rear Window Palestine
🍊Palimpsests of Removal, of Violence, of Possibility
🍊Craving Mangoes and the Generative Space of Refusal
🍊Life Must Be Disrupted In Order To Be Revealed: The Recording As Record And The Hyper-Surveilled Entity Not Meant To Exist in “An Unusual Summer”
🍊The Silent Chorus of Limestone: Non-human Witnesses to Intimacy, Creation, and Destruction in Settler Colonialism
🍊Who Shall Give the Command to Spew Us Out?: On Systems of Loss-Creation and Shriveling
🍊Inserted Instead: Critical Fabulation and Alternative Narrative Creation in Palestinian and Arab Archival Art


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LAMIA ABUKHADRA

لمياء ابوخضرا

HOW TO CREATE DEEP
LONGING





2019
Found drafting paper, screenprint, limestone found on the banks of the Mississippi river, beeswax, concrete blocks
Variable size


HOW TO CREATE DEEP LONGING diagrams the intersection and cycles of loss, unethical development, and desire, as well as the tools involved in creating these relationships. The tool pictured, a drill crawler rig, is used to dig out deep holes for building foundations. In 2019, I saw this tool at every single new construction site in Minneapolis, a rapidly gentrifying city/settler colony that now has a growing population of houseless people. I began to signify the drill with displacement, as signage for luxury housing would appear soon after I would see the tool.

Photography of installation by David Kern