Spotlights shine on images of various sizes, posted to a grouping of free standing gray panels and on purple fabric banners suspended from the ceiling. A single video channel projects yellow flowers on the back corner wall.
Installation view: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Spotlights highlight images of various sizes, posted to a grouping of gray panels standing along the floor, and on purple and black fabric banners suspended from the ceiling. The left back wall has a projection of a person laying down, in monochromatic red lighting. The right back wall has a projection of an inverted blue thistle.
Installation view: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Spotlights highlight a grouping of purple and black fabric banners, hanging from white ceiling grids. On the magenta walls are two black and white projections.
Low Cloud Hum, 2023 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Spotlights shine on images of various sizes posted to a grouping of gray panels along the floor and on purple fabric banners suspended from the ceiling. A single video channel projects yellow flowers on the back corner wall.
Installation view: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
A single channel video of an inverted blue and purple thistles is projected along a back corner wall. Multiple concrete bricks with a skeletal thistle plant stuck into it sit across the floor. On each side of the projection are images posted to standing gray panels.
Where the soil has been disturbed, 2023 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
A single channel video of an inverted blue and purple thistles is projected along a back corner wall. Multiple concrete bricks with a skeletal thistle plant stuck into it sit across the floor. On each side of the projection are images posted to standing gray and brown panels.
Where the soil has been disturbed, 2023 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Spotlights shine on images of various sizes posted to a grouping of freestanding, gray panels along the floor and on purple fabric banners suspended from the ceiling. A single video channel projects branches against a light blue sky on the back corner wall.
Installation view: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Three channels of video are projected onto uneven surfaces of large overlapping rectangular panels. The left and middle projection are different angles of a person dancing. The right projection is a full moon. In the foreground sit short, metal benches.
May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us, 2020-2022. Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Three channels of video are projected onto uneven surfaces of large overlapping rectangular panels. The outside projections are of landscapes, the middle projection is a profile of a person with text reading “An echo Buried Buried Buried”. In the foreground sit short, metal benches.
May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us, 2020-2022. Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Three channels of video are projected onto uneven surfaces of large overlapping rectangular panels. The projections show three different shots of dancers in a red monochromatic lighting. In the foreground sit short, metal benches.
May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us, 2020-2022. Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Three channels of video are projected onto uneven surfaces of large overlapping rectangular panels. The outside projections show inverted blue images. The middle projection shows a person in red, monochromatic lighting, dancing with a long swinging ponytail and their arms in the air. In the foreground sit short, metal benches.
May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us, 2020-2022. Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
Three channels of video are projected onto uneven surfaces of large overlapping rectangular panels. Each projection shows a different angle of two people dancing and looking at each other with rocks in the background. In the foreground sit short, metal benches.
May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us, 2020-2022). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
A projection of a blue and white rough surface is projected across a wall and on various sized staggered, rectangular panels.
May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us, 2020-2022 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
A projection of a person laying down with their eyes closed, in red light, is projected across a wall and on various sized staggered, rectangular panels.
May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us, 2020-2022 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller
A projection of two people dancing and clapping in front of a large rocky background is projected across a wall and on various sized rectangular panels, staggered in a row, making the projection surface uneven.
May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth: Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us, 2020-2022 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, 2025. Photo: Eric Mueller