Shapes of sorrow (Gaza)
2024

A2 risograph prints, handwritten statstics, cling plastic, weather.

Hvitsten Salong 2024

Several identical A2 posters were installed in a pine grove, wrapped around trees of various widths with plastic: clinging and suffocating. The prints are very black, abstract, and layered. Each has a handwritten text with numbers and statistics from the genocide in Gaza, going backwards in time as you walk off the path and through the grove.

Numbers cannot convey suffering and pain, but they can convey magnitude.

Over the course of weeks exposed to the elements, the work became further abstracted by rainwater. At the end of the exhibition, the plastic was recycled and the prints preserved.

Thank you to Hvitsten Salong, Brynhild Seim, curator Camilla von Koppen, and mediator Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin.

Documentation by Jessica Williams and Hvitsten Salong.