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Hanging dreams II by Assaf Mousa Alkhraty | عساف موسى الخرطي

Hanging dreams II

Assaf Mousa Alkhraty | عساف موسى الخرطي portrait
Year 2023
Medium scrap metal
Dimensions 60cmH × 60cmW
Location Destroyed. Digital record only.
Materials Unknown

Description

5 pieces depicting the outline of a human being, 60 cm long, mounted on a 60 cm diameter circle

The work depicts a group of young people in a circle, all carrying the same dreams, as well as the same difficulties and pressures, waiting helplessly . The young people revolve in vicious circles and endless cycles, between thinking about leaving or staying, between patience and enduring humiliation or self-esteem and dignity, between life and death, both of which are slow deaths !! While everyone aspires to a dignified life that provides them with a stable life, unfortunately, these dreams collide with a bitter reality, and the struggle continues

Preservation Notes

STATUS Physical work destroyed, no longer extant. Recorded 2026-09-18 on the instruction of Sky, PAPA: the artist's studio and home were destroyed in Israeli airstrikes and no physical work in this collection is known to survive. This record documents a work that no longer exists. SURVIVING RECORD, CRITICAL One digital image, 373 x 423 px, 33 KB JPEG. Severely under-resolved for a five-element sculpture. The individual figures cannot be examined at this size. Recovery of a better file should be treated as urgent, alongside Hanging Dreams and The Head of a Horse. DIGITAL PRESERVATION Ask the artist for any original camera file, phone backup, messaging app copy, or social media upload, including lower-quality versions. Check the artist's Instagram account, recorded on his artist page. Store whatever is recovered as an uncompressed master with a checksum and a copy outside the Content Lake. MATERIAL RECORD Scrap metal, recorded in the description as five pieces depicting the outline of a human being, each 60 cm long, mounted on a circle of 60 cm diameter.

Tags

sculpturewelded metalscrap metalrecycled materialshuman figurescircleyouthemigrationGazadestroyed workdigital-only record
Archival Status: public

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