Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Until we became fire and fire us. Sharjah Walkthrough, 2023.

32 minute 7 channel video, 6 channel sound piece
Sublimation prints on fabric dimensions variable, Digital prints on metal dimensions variable,
7 Steel panels dimensions variable 

This work is composed of several works that come together to create a whole. The project can either be shown in its entirety or specific works from it can be shown as stand alone pieces. 

Low cloud hum
50x150 cm and 50x100 cm sublimation prints on fabric
Two channel sound piece with subwoofer

To dig a tunnel in the earth
50x150cm sublimation prints on fabric, Digital prints on metal dimensions variable, corten steel panel
Subwoofer

Low cloud hang
Video 32 min, Digital prints on metal dimensions variable, corten steel panel

Until we became fire and fire us 
32 minute 2-4 channel video projection, 2-4 channel sound + subwoofer, concrete and metal panels size variable 


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The song is the call and the land is calling
The land is calling the vanished through the song

The land haunts us
And we haunt them
The shadow, the echo, the ghosts of what remain

The loss of our land haunts us. Having been severed from the land we are haunted by it. A forbidden land like a forbidden love.
Until we became fire and fire us explore various forms of hauntings, love stories bound to loss, land and self, forms of imprisonment and the call to get free, with sound and song being at the heart of this exploration. In it all is a search for a reconnection to a severed broken land, community, history, one that haunts, imprisons and moves us all at once. The project is a mixed media installation with multiple channel sound and video. It formally explores the idea of hauntings in its aural and visual content and the way in which this material appears and disappears into a given space. Sometimes appearing as poetry from a dissonant voice, a broken melody or intense flashes of text and video, or an imprint from a forbidden land, a forbidden love.

This work is part of the wider May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth project