Miss Shabani Remembers The Rebellion (Congo Diary), 2025 Acrylic paint skin, lightbulb, and found debris (broken wood box, wood scraps, rusted metal scraps, plastic fragments) 16” x 14½” x 5”
Miss Anna Binti Shabani —who fought alongside Cuban-Argentinian guerrilla revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara— flips through the pages of Che’s published Congo Diary during an interview with AFP (Agence France-Presse) some 50 years after she met him. Sebele, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2015.
"This photo (...) reminds me of the ideas he left us and our revolution," she says, "we didn't win, but I hope he will come one day to free us."
To Die With Your Head Unbowed (For Lumumba), 2025 Acrylic paint skin, lightbulb, and found debris (wood scraps, rusted metal scraps, plastic fragments, cardboard cigar box) 7” x 4 ½” x 5½”
Patrice Lumumba having been taken captive by the forces of the western-backed Mobutu regime, sits
Christmas Day at the Gates of Elbit (The Guillotine), 2025, Acrylic paint skin, lightbulb, and found debris (discarded wood, rusted metal scraps, plastic fragments, cardboard, string)
A member of the direct action group Palestine Action vandalizes the Gates of Elbit systems. Shenstone, United Kingdom, December 24, 2024.
Relief seeker, 2024 Acrylic paint skin, light bulb, and found debris (broken drawer, scrap metal, scrap wood, key), 20 ¼” x 16 ¼” x x 5 ½”
Fellow protestors use milk to flush the eyes of a young woman affected by pepper spray amid nationwide unrest following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Lafayette Park, Washington DC, May 31, 2020.
Across an Ocean in time (Rafah, Ramin, Oakland), 2024, Acrylic, acrylic paint skin, light bulbs, and found debris (scrap metal, bike tire, cast iron manhole cover, wire), 19” x 23 ½” x 23 ½”
Fighter’s Votive 2024, Acrylic paint skin, acrylic, light bulb and found debris (Broken sink basin, water bottle) 19 ½” x 17” x 7½”
A young Palestinian man with a slingshot shoots rocks at IDF tanks in Bethlehem, West Bank in July of 2015.
