We Are Staying, 2015

We are Staying, 2015, handmade egg tempera, installation, 120 x 12 feet

We are Staying, 2015, handmade egg tempera, installation, 120 x 12 feet

We are Staying, 2015, handmade egg tempera, installation, 120 x 12 feet

Posted on: September 18, 2017
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We are Staying is a graphic rendering of an urban environment in Syria. It is a composite of images and descriptions of Aleppo, Saraqib, Hama, Homs, Damascus and Daraa taken from conventional and social media sources over the last three years. Here, disparate geographies and unorganized moments in time overlay each other, reflecting both a fragmented understanding of these accounts, and the conscious and unconscious attempts to recompose a potential reality.




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Alina Gallo

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MFA Alumni

Major: Sculpture

Graduation Year: 2008


Artist Statement:

I began a series of contemporary miniature paintings and large installations chronicling the events unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa region and their representation in Western media in 2012 following the onset of the 'Arab Spring.'

Our digital landscape puts us in contact with a sea of fragmented and stratified documentations that come forth on social media platforms filtered by chance as well as by multiple, calculated and unknowable internal dialectics and interests.

My work samples and combines imagery and information from this multitude of raw-footage, photographs and documentary snippets, as well as from traditional media outlets, reflecting both a fragmented understanding of these accounts and the conscious and unconscious attempts to recompose a potential reality.

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