Firas Shehadeh

Signal Feels Collision, 2022
Collection of the artist

Signal Feels Collision is a series of eight digital prints on aluminum by Firas Shehadeh that explores how systems of abstraction are amongst the many forms of colonial violence applied by settlers onto natives and their worlds, such as by rendering native ecology into data that can be analysed, categorised, surveilled and controlled. Natives who imagine freedom are a threat to colonial domination. They resist colonial systems of abstraction with systems of meaning.

BIO
Firas Shehadeh’s (b. 1988) practice is informed by his long-standing interest in history, technology and aesthetics, and grapples with the understanding of home and identity in a post-internet age. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. He currently lives and works in Vienna.

RESOURCES

• Video | Artist Insights: Firas Shehadeh

INFORMATION

• Signal Feels Collision. 2022. Eight digital prints on aluminium, each 120 x 160 cm.