Title: Gaza Truisms

Year: 2023/4

Media: Set of 4, Inkjet on paper

Size:   152.4 x 101.6 cm

About the work: "Pain is the least communicable of all," wrote Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition. The onslaught of images that have piled up like visual rubble since October 7th, 2023 have often left me wondering if the exhaustion of language is the asymptote of anger. These "Gaza Truisms" are from an ongoing practice of posting words that mirror our collective, seething feelings.

Bio: Shumon Basar is a writer, editor and curator. His books have included "The Extreme Self" and "The Age of Earthquakes," both co-authored with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist.