2026 ~ Roaming Assembly #33 ~ Ever Given / Oraib Toukan, Things Bigger Than What Can Be Seen

Inspired by Munir Fasheh’s “soils”, Toukan's text thinks through and with the spirit of geology, to try and understand why images sometimes appear the way they do. She has long been preoccupied by the parallels between the grain of an image, and the soils of this earth. She begins with one parent of soil, stone. Specifically, Palestinian stone, both as image and metaphor, to explore why this tiny overexposed part of this earth, with its exceptional cloudless clarity and remarkable layered hues, is so hard to see? She will muse over three iconic images that have recently resurfaced and recirculated to contemplate the space between the seen, and the unseen. She will draw at length from Richard Fortey’s geology as “the collective unconscious of the world”, one that is concerned with what geology does as opposed to what geology is.

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