Khalil Rabah – Relocation, Among Other Things
KHALIL RABAH
Relocation, Among Other Things
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The work might reference exile and flight at first glance, but it also challenges upfront the core idea and purpose of a museum, acting as a museal investigation of sorts, conducted through a diasporic lens. “The Museum’s mission statement argues that the museum seeks to achieve that which is ‘impossible’. The inherently unreasonable task of encyclopaedic museums speaking to a universal history is one of the work’s permeable disclosures. Undergirding this is the inevitable and poignant impossibility of archiving a people, a place, a state, which remains under occupation, in constant free-fall—destruct and let go” .