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RAMI GEORGE

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let every pansy bloom

Plywood, concrete blocks, reproduced family and found photos, publication ephemera, reproduced publication ephemera, black canvas, bleach

Installation, 2017

Photos by Alina Wang

[In a gallery, three freestanding, vertical wooden walls of varied sizes and anchored by concrete blocks display scattered arrangements of photos and newspaper clippings.]

[A wooden wall with nude photos, snapshots, and newspaper clippings sparsely affixed to it. One sheet reads "GETTING ALONG WITH UNCLE DADDY".]

[A freestanding wooden wall anchored by a concrete block with erotic nude photos, snapshots, and newspaper clippings sparsely taped to it. In one photo a sign reads "JOBS NOT JAILS", and in another a sign reads "FURIOUS FAGGOT".]

[A wooden wall with sparsely taped photos, including one of a naked woman in a thong bent over, an upside down drawing of two men kissing, and a large black and white portrait of a shirtless white man laying down.]

[A vertical, freestanding wooden wall anchored by a concrete block with a sparse arrangement of trans, lesbian, and gay erotic photos, drawings, and ephemera.]

[A wooden board with sparse nude photos taped to it, including a drawing of a nude trans woman and a photo of a naked man lying on his stomach.]

[A freestanding wooden wall anchored by a concrete block with sparse photos taped to it, including a seated white woman with another white woman bent over her lap as she spanks her, and people in a march holding up a banner that reads "QUEER LIBERATION NOT RAINBOW CAPITALISM".]

Untitled (Stonewall)[A vertical black cloth pinned to the wall reads "HOMO NEST RAIDED, QUEEN BEES STINGING MAD." in all-caps, outline text with an orange border.]

Untitled (“Gaëtan Dugas”)[A vertical black cloth with frayed edges and pinned to the wall reads "'I'M GOING TO DIE, AND SO ARE YOU.'" in faded all-caps, outline text with an orange border.]

⁽²⁴⁾Dog ⁽²³⁾Untitled (the ashram) ⁽²²⁾Untitled (mapping) ⁽²¹⁾Untitled (the wars in Lebanon) ⁽²⁰⁾List Projects 21: Rami George ⁽¹⁹⁾Untitled (with my father) ⁽¹⁸⁾brotherly love, sisterly affection ⁽¹⁷⁾Untitled (Donna Mae Stemmer) ⁽¹⁶⁾an ode to three ⁽¹⁵⁾Inherited Premises ⁽¹⁴⁾Untitled (the wars in Lebanon) ⁽¹³⁾let every pansy bloom ⁽¹²⁾tide/tithe ⁽¹¹⁾the mediterranean sea from the banks of lebanon, re: ali, krystel, nathalie, rasheed, visso, vrouyr ⁽¹⁰⁾virtually every site one can visit virtually: gaza strip ⁽⁰⁹⁾my mother and her sister always argued in arabic, i never understood what was said ⁽⁰⁸⁾Untitled (Saturday, October 16, 1993) ⁽⁰⁷⁾Untitled (footnotes) ⁽⁰⁶⁾Untitled (Beyrouth) ⁽⁰⁵⁾Untitled (Samaritan Foundation) ⁽⁰⁴⁾Untitled (Stanley, my second lover) ⁽⁰³⁾Untitled (two men, last scene) ⁽⁰²⁾Untitled (two men, last scene) ⁽⁰¹⁾Untitled (family albums)