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Oraib Toukan
Oraib Toukan’s Painless May, June cut to the heart (2011) is an ongoing project that re-presents photographs depicting a couple’s travels throughout various locations in Europe from 1967 to 1970. The selected images, a collection of amateur Kodak snapshots belonging to Toukan’s family, situate the viewer in seemingly apolitical scenes of repose. The paradox of the situation manifests itself in the observation of dates printed on the images’ borders and the recognizable tourist locations that correspond to the period of rioting across Europe during the late 1960s.
