The Green Line
Synopsis
In The Green Line, for which the axiom was âsometimes the political is poetic, sometimes the poetic is politicalâ, AlyĚs walks holding a punctured can of dribbling green paint along the contested width of the so-called Green Line established between Israel and its neighbours following the 1948 ArabâIsraeli War. In formal terms, The Green Line is a reenactment of an earlier work, The Leak (1996), in which the artist took a can dribbling blue paint for a walk and installed the empty container in the gallery. By recontextualising The Leak in geopolitical terms, AlyĚs relocates the tensions in the work from those formal ideas of action and painting to questions of maps and territories and who has the right to live where.
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