pt IV
In the center of the gallery space, a wooden fishing boat nods to our ancestral links to the sea, a source of sustenance, of economic boon and a passageway all at once. It carries a flat TV screen with Al Solh’s newest video work, Two Airplanes and the Luggage. The animated cartoon video shows Europa fleeing over the water, abandoning her suitcase and the bull that’s an intrinsic part of her story, to escape bombings – and possibly the shackles of her own myth. The artist whistles, hums and buzzes the score herself, mimicking in turn bird chirping, war planes and explosions.
