ARABIAN GAZELLE

The Arabian gazelle (Gazella arabica) is a species of gazelle known from the Arabian Peninsula. Gazelles typically frequent wide-open spaces and plains, where they browse on grasses, shoots, and leaves.  Open plains make them visible to predators like cheetahs or wild dogs and their infants will remain out of sight for days or even weeks, being periodically nursed by their mother, until they can join the pack. They are migrating animals. In adverse conditions or in search for food they can travel more than 75 km away from their home. Each time they carry their single wish of survival. –Extinct due to hunting by humans before 2008. 

 

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"Questioning the "de facto" existance of seperating lines between social and geographical continents, the act of drawing fictional shapes on a geophysical map as a reminder of its absurdity. Why should we find it necessary to own the land and how destructive can that be. Borders are what is left out of dead (or dead to be) men's promises." 

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During the performance, a map of Middle East-Greece-Egypt was projected on the gazelle sculpture. The artist drew red borders on it using Paint app, on real time, until the whole map was painted red as a statement against the virtual and detached from actuality, procedure of creating borders.