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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
    • In the head's dusk
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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
Ali Eyal 1994 ​© All Rights Reserved​

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​Commissioned for Home Works 8, Ashkal Alwan 

Where Does A Thought Go When It's Forgotten? 2019

Sigmund Freud
Oil paint, color pencils, and ink drawings on envelopes, paper, and cardboard boxes.
For the past ten years or so, a team of architects and illustrators has collaborated on reconstructing the kitchen and living room of a destroyed house on the outskirts of Baghdad. While producing floor plans and suggestions alongside the artist, and exchanging them via sealed envelopes, the team was overtaken by delightful scents. The plants and flowers from which those odors originated eventually found their way into the sealed envelopes and paperwork, as if haunting the architects and illustrators’ bodies in a ghostly matter. The latter found themselves drawing the poisonous flowers for two days in a row. A French architect even wrote: “The scent of this beautiful white flower has triggered nausea, thirst, and fever. Yesterday, we forgot where we were and caught ourselves witnessing things that do not exist.” The workflow was interrupted, and the output subsequently destroyed, considered to have been based on stolen ideas originally authored by the plants and flowers surrounding the team. ​
Installation view of Ali Eyal, Where Does A Thought Go When It’s Forgotten? And. (detail), 2019–22, oil paint, color pencils, and ink drawings on envelopes, paper, and cardboard boxes, in the 58th Carnegie International, Courtesy of the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art; photo: Sean Eaton.
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In Platform  39. Courtesy of the artist and Platform 39; photo: Mohammed Abdullah
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The 58th Carnegie International
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    • 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