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After Oil (Bubian: There Once Was an Island)

After Oil (Bubian: There Once Was an Island)

Rania Ghosn
Lebanese, born 1977
El Hadi Jazairy
Algerian, born 1970
2016
An inkjet print on canvas that imagines a post‑oil landscape—an architecturally precise, poetic map showing a once‑existent island and the infrastructural scars left by extraction.
You’re struck by its monochrome, maplike precision: layered hatching and dotted fields form a cross‑section of land and sea with a dark hollow in the foreground, a regimented row of palm‑like stems and a distant skyline beneath a crescent moon, creating a quiet, uncanny stillness.
By fusing architectural drawing and speculative cartography, Ghosn makes visible how oil reshapes geology, settlement, and memory, opening a visual language for thinking about the residues and futures of extraction.
Medium
Inkjet print on canvas
Dimensions
27 9/16 × 27 9/16 × 13/16" (70 × 70 × 2 cm)
Classification
Credit
Fund for the Twenty-First Century
Accession
56.2018.9
Palette
Exhibitions
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