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    • Don't let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups? And
    • Where do the walls of the museum go when they are forgotten? And
    • Other details were released from under the hair, embedded by power on the paper's surface, which bore the oil and color. The paper was transmigrated into the canvas's ghost. This occurred with the help of volatile eyebrow's scissors, snipped by the han
    • From the head's knoll. And
    • Berlin's drawing's pad and
    • a depiction of things at the back of my head. And
    • Entry into this household is strictly prohibited under any circumstances, as is the construction or alteration of furniture or the construction of a new home or project, unless written permission is granted by the owner of the blue bag, and
    • A Smoking Paper, But Without Smoke, and
    • where does a thought go when it's forgotten? And
    • No Part Of This Book May Be Reproduced, In Any Way, By Photocopying, Recording, Or Otherwise, Except With The Prior Written Consent Of The Publisher, and
    • Behind The Sun
    • Painting Size 80x60cm
      • My nightmare
    • In One Direction, From a Steady Angle
    • Tonight’s Programme
    • Chapter 1
      • 5 minutes lucid dreams and deep sleep
      • Oasis Behaviour
      • View from the roof of my farm
      • Tourist trips in our farm
      • Add Friend So You Can Speak With the President
      • The Body’s Heavy Box
      • The Body's Autumn
  • Solo exhibitions
    • In the head's sunrise
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    • The Blue Ink Pocket, and
    • An Indefinite appearance or two walls and
    • 6x9 doesn’t fit everything and
    • Don't let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups? And
    • Where do the walls of the museum go when they are forgotten? And
    • Other details were released from under the hair, embedded by power on the paper's surface, which bore the oil and color. The paper was transmigrated into the canvas's ghost. This occurred with the help of volatile eyebrow's scissors, snipped by the han
    • From the head's knoll. And
    • Berlin's drawing's pad and
    • a depiction of things at the back of my head. And
    • Entry into this household is strictly prohibited under any circumstances, as is the construction or alteration of furniture or the construction of a new home or project, unless written permission is granted by the owner of the blue bag, and
    • A Smoking Paper, But Without Smoke, and
    • where does a thought go when it's forgotten? And
    • No Part Of This Book May Be Reproduced, In Any Way, By Photocopying, Recording, Or Otherwise, Except With The Prior Written Consent Of The Publisher, and
    • Behind The Sun
    • Painting Size 80x60cm
      • My nightmare
    • In One Direction, From a Steady Angle
    • Tonight’s Programme
    • Chapter 1
      • 5 minutes lucid dreams and deep sleep
      • Oasis Behaviour
      • View from the roof of my farm
      • Tourist trips in our farm
      • Add Friend So You Can Speak With the President
      • The Body’s Heavy Box
      • The Body's Autumn
  • Solo exhibitions
    • In the head's sunrise
    • In the head's dusk
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Ali Eyal 1994 ​© All Rights Reserved​

In the Head’s Sunrise

Brief Histories, NYC, December 8, 2022 - January 28, 2023 
Curated by Fawz Kabra
Press Release 
Three heads walking between towns, and. 2022
Detail. Three heads walking between towns, and, 2022
Oil on canvas, conté stick, Band-Aid
65 x 109 inches
Finally, someone reached out and tore the head off, soda pop came out from the scalp. I don’t know, and I don’t know who they are... –AE

Ali Eyal’s paintings are characterized by their intense subjectivity that bring forth fragmented narratives and surreal visual scenes and compositions. Retrieved in tangled strands of hair or found on the path illuminated by the headlights of a pick-up truck, figures appear, searching for something or someone that is missing; they cover their faces, they run, their apparent movement obscures their features. Eyal’s works piece together memories, dreams, and stories that reach into one another and across media, rendering incomprehensible violences and unfathomable events witnessed in the artist’s hometown, a place he calls small farm. Set against the impossible scale of calamity in war, Eyal gives curious attention to the intimate, and often absurd, accounts to be found in this concentrated space. He arranges these intersecting narratives, and swiftly, he captures a moment or a gesture, like an artist in a courtroom, sketching the chronicles as they unfold. He draws everything he can see until the flashlight’s glow no longer illuminates the view and the image breaks off into darkness.

An artist and poet, Eyal’s text is an extension of his drawings and a thread to his paintings that return as narrative links in his performances and videos. In the contemporary novel Frankenstein in Baghdad, Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi stitches together a portrait of a land in horrific turmoil through the creation of a monster made from corpses found among the mayhem in the wake of the US invasion of Iraq. This modern Prometheus resurrects a creature to stir those in power to care about the dead, unwittingly giving the possibility that the disappeared might return. Eyal’s artworks, too, build up a landscape of disappeared memory, torn, stitched, sewn, and wrapped back into each other. In the video installation The Blue Ink Pocket, and (2022), the narrator describes finding disparate paintings of body parts, “We stumbled upon the left ear inside the bag of rice. We retrieved the painting of the head from inside the abandoned storage. The right ear from under the stairs. The shoulders and the hands we found inside the jacket. And we found the feet stuffed inside the cotton.” He recounts the pieces, removing them from their hiding place one at a time. 
​Installation view

New Update, and. 2022
Detail.
New update, and, 2022
Oil on canvas
20 x 31 inches

The Blue Ink Pocket, and 2022

The blue ink pocket, and, 2022 Oil on canvas, wardrobe, raw cotton, rice, woven carpet, conté stick Dimensions variable

Berlin's drawing pad, and, 2020
Colored pencil and ink on paper 8.3 x 11.7 inches (11x14 inches framed)

This size doesn't fit everything, and, 2021
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​Hand written letter in wood frame 5x7 inches (framed)

Soda pop, and, 2022

​Colored pencil, pastel, and ink on paper 8.3 x 11.7 inches (11x14 inches framed)

Photo by Isak Berbic.


​Special thanks to Fawz Kabra  and Isak Berbic 

For more information visit www.briefhistories.art
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    • The Blue Ink Pocket, and
    • An Indefinite appearance or two walls and
    • 6x9 doesn’t fit everything and
    • Don't let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups? And
    • Where do the walls of the museum go when they are forgotten? And
    • Other details were released from under the hair, embedded by power on the paper's surface, which bore the oil and color. The paper was transmigrated into the canvas's ghost. This occurred with the help of volatile eyebrow's scissors, snipped by the han
    • From the head's knoll. And
    • Berlin's drawing's pad and
    • a depiction of things at the back of my head. And
    • Entry into this household is strictly prohibited under any circumstances, as is the construction or alteration of furniture or the construction of a new home or project, unless written permission is granted by the owner of the blue bag, and
    • A Smoking Paper, But Without Smoke, and
    • where does a thought go when it's forgotten? And
    • No Part Of This Book May Be Reproduced, In Any Way, By Photocopying, Recording, Or Otherwise, Except With The Prior Written Consent Of The Publisher, and
    • Behind The Sun
    • Painting Size 80x60cm
      • My nightmare
    • In One Direction, From a Steady Angle
    • Tonight’s Programme
    • Chapter 1
      • 5 minutes lucid dreams and deep sleep
      • Oasis Behaviour
      • View from the roof of my farm
      • Tourist trips in our farm
      • Add Friend So You Can Speak With the President
      • The Body’s Heavy Box
      • The Body's Autumn
  • Solo exhibitions
    • In the head's sunrise
    • In the head's dusk
  • PORTFOLIO PDF