Rayyane

Somehow answering the chaos chronicled in Adnan’s words, Rayyane Tabet’s suitcases encased in concrete are a hard reminder of the dispersion of people living away from their homeland. Growing up in Lebanon, his parents kept packed essential belongings ready for an evacuation.

Rayyane Tabet, Fossils (The Suitcase), 2015, Exhibition view Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, 2020