erasure

The Body as an Unresolved History: On the Works of Artist Samah Shehadeh

With precise lines and minimalistic visual language, Samah Shehadeh presents the Palestinian female body as a charged space of memory, rupture, and contemplation. Drawing with charcoal, a black and raw material, embodies an artistic act that exists on the seamline between erasure and exposure. The body in her work is not a closed representation but a continuous movement, silent yet present, exposing questions that representation cannot resolve.

Zerstört

The word “Zerstört” (destroyed, in German) is inscribed into the concrete floor. Shira Wachsmann tries, in vain, to eliminate it. The words “ort” (place) and “stört” (disturbing) are still visible. The destroyed is still present.