The Temporary Ruin

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As part of the Intimate Terrains exhibition’s August 2019 programme, the Museum hosted artist Benji Boyadgian in an Objects-in-Focus event to discuss his work, the Temporary Ruin (2017–ongoing). Boyadgian’s work is a detailed study of a landscape that is in the process of disappearing due to Israeli settler-colonialist expansion. Using items that the artist gathered in Wadi al-Shami, also known as ‘Garbage Valley’, the traces, remains, and ruins of that landscape are brought to the fore.