At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade into Each Other

"Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (both Palestine, 1983) make collaborative work informed by the artists’ research based practice which explores historical archives, literature, performance, underground music, and film.Their work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Palestinian Museum, the ICA Philadelphia, Portikus, Kunsthalle Wien, the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, the ICA London, and the Sharjah, São Paulo, Istanbul, Gwangju, and Liverpool biennials. They were awarded the Abraaj Group Art Prize in 2016 and the Sharjah Biennial Prize in 2015. Their work is collected by MoMa, New York; Art Jameel Collection, Dubai; Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah; and TBA21, Vienna, amongst others." — Proyectos Ultravioleta, Frieze Viewing Room 2020