Rubble 2024

porcelain

Who holds the authority to dictate what knowledge survives and who gains access to education? In this installation, blank porcelain pages lie across a platform, slumped and layered, resembling rubble. The pages, devoid of text or imagery, echo histories erased and voices silenced—a reminder of knowledge lost through systematic destruction.

Rubble confronts the devastation of scholasticide in Palestine, where academic infrastructure and lives are lost, leaving Palestinians to continually rewrite their history amidst erasure. The work serves as an institutional critique, questioning the silence of academic institutions that have failed to meaningfully condemn or oppose these acts of destruction, nor question their complicity in acts of terror through investment and research despite urges and protests by their own students. These blank pages, a solemn field of unwritten histories, reflect both rubble and resilience, challenging institutions to reckon with the violence of erasing knowledge.