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Dia Mrad: Works;
Atelier 2214
Genocide I — 333x333cm
Re-signifying the everyday as a site of absence.
Pedestrian symbols become markers of absence and erasure. Overlooking the Shoah Memorial, the studio faced a street where a pedestrian crossing symbol of a man and child was embedded in the asphalt. Arriving in Paris amid the five-day ceasefire in Gaza in November 2023—when mass graves were being dug and bodies wrapped in white were being buried—this alignment between symbol and memorial became inescapable. Once mundane, these figures took on the weight of burial, echoing images of Palestinian bodies laid in mass graves. The project disrupts their function, forcing a confrontation with how context transforms meaning—how a sign of movement becomes a symbol of loss. Atelier 2214unsettles the everyday, ensuring that the erased remain present beneath our feet.
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Exhibitions
11.01.2023–28.02.2023
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