Tewa Barnosa
/Visual Arts II/
Written to Not Remain is an ongoing visual investigation into the act of writing on walls across post-revolution Libya. It positions collective statements as ephemeral evidence of contemporary and historical events, social commentary, correspondences, and often silent protests, serving as testimonies of the times from 2011 onwards. The work reflects the state of the world, particularly in relation to the impact of western-led interventions and manufactured conflicts in Libya. In this video piece, which combines archival imagery with actions conducted in a VR simulation, Barnosa translates and transmits a photo archive she began collecting in 2019, elaborating on select events from over 200 images of writings, alongside a text recitation.
Tewa Barnosa is an artist and cultural practitioner from Tripoli, Libya. Her artistic practice is situated between trajectories of visual arts and curatorial collaborations. Her body of work consists of audiovisual installations, text, performance, expanded paintings and objects that serve as tools for investigating territories on the margins. Through the recontextualization of source materials, generated fiction, mythologies and historical archives, Barnosa repositions fragments of evidence related to human alienation and socio-ecological turbulence, intersecting the frameworks of militarization and the violations of cognitive and cultural means of resistance