This artwork is based on satellite imagery and research findings from Yale University.

The black and red dots mark recent and older mass graves.

On one side of the artwork, threads connect various communities. They represent the Fur, Zaghawa, Masalit, and other tribes who, despite their differences, share one fate: mass graves. Connected in life, connected in death.

On the other side of the artwork runs a network of gold-paved roads. Not as a symbol of prosperity, but of plunder. Roads along which power, resources, and blood money flow, while the population is left behind amidst rubble, hunger, and silence.

While the world is rightly enraged about Gaza, another nightmare is unfolding in Darfur, largely out of sight of cameras, hashtags, and university campuses.

Satellite images show burned-out villages, destroyed farmlands, mass graves, and evidence of systematic ethnic cleansing. People are not only being killed but also starved, surrounded, and exterminated. Even the evidence of their existence seems to disappear intentionally. The question is not just what is happening in Sudan.
The question is why so many people remain silent.
Why do millions of people mobilize for some victims, while other victims barely exist in public consciousness?

This question is uncomfortable for both the West and the Middle East.
For the West: if human rights are universal, why does a genocide in Africa not receive the same attention as conflicts involving allies?

For the Middle East: where are the mass protests when perpetrators and victims share the same Islamic faith? Why does the voice against injustice from the outside often sound louder than against injustice from within?

A child in El-Fasher is worth no less than a child elsewhere.
A mother in Darfur cries no less hard.
A genocide does not become less serious because it takes place outside the spotlight.
The greatest ally of war criminals is not just violence.
It is our selective attention. Because if we only stand up for victims who fit into our political narrative, we are not defending human rights.

Then we are defending preferences.

Unique work.

Mixed media on recycled foil
105 cm (including Islamic verse for the dead plateau) x 83 / 83 cm x 3 cm.