Don’t let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups? And (2021)

Overview

Working with drawing that is transformed by text, installation, photography or video, Ali Eyal’s practice examines feelings of absence and dissonance in response to armed conflict. In the installation performance Don’t let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups? And (2021), the artist confronts his family’s unnamed aggressor through a home invasion, simultaneously laying bare the injustices committed against an entire community. Sitting next to surreal depictions of his childhood in the rural farmlands of Iraq and his experience of war, the artist stages a patient, albeit abstract, form of revenge as a means to undo loss and give voice to trauma.