globalwarmist:Earlier this year, London’s Tate Modern acquired “Sabra and Shatila Massacre” (1982-83
globalwarmist:Earlier this year, London’s Tate Modern acquired “Sabra and Shatila Massacre” (1982-83), an epic mural-sized drawing by pioneering Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi. Sprawling as it is towering and engulfing, the artist began the massive work after news surfaced that between two and three thousand Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were strategically murdered in and around the refugee camps of southern Beirut in 1982. While creating “Sabra and Shatila Massacre,” al-Azzawi was also moved by Jean Genet’s “Four Hours in Shatila,” a written dispatch of the hell on earth that was the site of this civil-war era carnage, the violent details of which are impossible to take in without periodically searching for respite by turning away from the page.- Dia al-Azzawi’s “Sabra and Shatila Massacre”The mural as a crucial form of political expression (see Rivera), relate to the wall which is attacked by graffiti, the wall whose social relations are made to sing out, to scream out, and announce themselves from concrete. -- source link
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