Sabil Abu Nabbut (towards reconstruction)
Sabil Abu Nabbut (towards reconstruction), 2017, acrylic on archival paper, 98.8X130 cm
Sabil Abu Nabbut (towards reconstruction) is the first action in a research of the structure of the Sabil (an Ottoman public building) as a silenced object, severed from its original function. Originally, the sabil provided portable water for travelers in periods and areas where water supply was scarce. Sabil Abu Nabbut on Derech Ben Tsvi in Tel Aviv is an Ottoman structure building by the Governon of Jaffa Muhammad Aga a-Shami (nicknamed ''abu nabutt'') in 1815 on the main road from Jaffa to Lydda and Jerusalem, a location that made it an important meeting point of wayfarers. In the course of the years, and especially after 1948, the sabil was continuously vandalized by public authorities and private individuals: its window were sealed with cement and latter-day stone, its faucets were ripped, the ceramic pots and crescents which decorates its domes were looted; actions that damaged it structurally and aesthetically
As if in an act of restoration the usage of the archaeological technique of numbering stone and re-mapping the sabil's blind facade was used to emphasize its silencing and to publish out its plastered parts.
Sabil Abu Nabbut (towards reconstruction), 2017, acrylic on archival paper, 98.8X130 cm
Sabil Abu Nabbut (towards reconstruction) is the first action in a research of the structure of the Sabil (an Ottoman public building) as a silenced object, severed from its original function. Originally, the sabil provided portable water for travelers in periods and areas where water supply was scarce. Sabil Abu Nabbut on Derech Ben Tsvi in Tel Aviv is an Ottoman structure building by the Governon of Jaffa Muhammad Aga a-Shami (nicknamed ''abu nabutt'') in 1815 on the main road from Jaffa to Lydda and Jerusalem, a location that made it an important meeting point of wayfarers. In the course of the years, and especially after 1948, the sabil was continuously vandalized by public authorities and private individuals: its window were sealed with cement and latter-day stone, its faucets were ripped, the ceramic pots and crescents which decorates its domes were looted; actions that damaged it structurally and aesthetically
As if in an act of restoration the usage of the archaeological technique of numbering stone and re-mapping the sabil's blind facade was used to emphasize its silencing and to publish out its plastered parts.