Things Bigger Than What Can Be Seen

Things Bigger Than What Can Be Seen is a collection of Oraib Toukan’s essays, translated to Arabic for the first time. In close dialogue with Palestinian pedagogue Munir Fasheh on the topic of turbeh (local soil in Arabic), Toukan crafts a haptic perspective on images from what she terms their ‘soil grain’.

Images & Texts by Oraib Toukan

Translation by Bekriah Mawasi and Suneela Mubayi, Abed Azzam, Yasmine Haj

Design by Archive Ensemble and Jana Kibbi

Printed by Litografia Gida

Supported by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

on the occasion of the exhibition we refuse-d

Softcover, 256 pages

ISBN 978-3-912226-02-7

00,00 €

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