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We Are All Things
An ordinary room in Cairo. A man, now alone. An assemblage of household objects that aren't so inanimate.
The objects we own bear witness to our secret lives. In We Are All Things, a quiet room becomes a noisy backdrop to heartbreak and other forces of sentience. Here, pillows bemoan lost touch, lamps flicker with the memory of darkness, and the stereo coos a forgotten melody. This illustrated prose poem marries the rhythmic melody of poetry with the fluidity of visual narrative and invites us to imagine the mystery of feeling and the longing nature of existence.
Equal parts Maurice-Ponty and Yahyā al-Tāhir 'Abdallah, We Are All Things is the first collaboration between Elliott Golla and Ganzeer.
Book Details
- Publisher: Radix Media
- Publish Date: Feb 25th, 2020
- Pages: 48
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9781734048711
- Categories: • Middle Eastern• American - General
About the Author
Colla, Elliott: - Elliott Colla teaches Arabic literature at Georgetown University. His first book, Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity, explores the colonial roots of modern Egyptology and the ways modern Egyptians have viewed the Pharaonic past. His 2014 novel, Baghdad Central, has been adapted as a television series by Euston Films and Channel 4 (UK), coming soon to Hulu. His current academic projects focus on protest cultures in contemporary Egypt.
Ganzeer: - Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling, creating what he has coined Concept Pop. With over forty exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer's work has been seen in a wide variety of art galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world, such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, Greek State Museum in Thessaloniki, and more.
Praise for this book
A shadow of a woman leaves a man in a room, witnessing objects revealing their essences in solitude, before a window. Through its one-way glass, Ganzeer and Colla project their sedimented memories of Cairo, unseen except from within. A Goodnight Moon for adults who aren't ready to sleep. --Iman Mersal, How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts (MIT Press)
Ganzeer's images bring to life an ordinary room in Cairo, where a man cries in bed. Then things in the room begin to speak. Elliott Colla's poetic prose rekindles thoughts of a relationship that has ended. A poem in comics and words, We Are All Things is an extraordinary book that you can read, dream, and find your old love in. -- Ahmed Naji, writer and journalist
We Are All Things is the perfect collaboration between an artist and a writer. Words and pictures combine to show us what cannot be seen and to tell us what must remain unspoken. A tiny room in a contemporary Arab city becomes the gateway to an infinite horizon. The universal experience of desire and loss. A small, but stunning, work of art. --Seth Tobocman, author and artist of You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive