ON CARRYING, CONTAINING AND RETURNING TO THE CYCLE : A DOG NAMED HANNIBAL

2020

While visiting Tunis and the historical ruins of Carthage for the first time in 2019, I got to learn about the Carthagian war leader Hannibal Barca, who infamously led his war elephants across the Alps in an attempt to conquer Rome. Being faced with the stories, I noticed my mind kept returning to something my mother had experienced and told me multiple times; about an aggressive dog named Hannibal she had encountered while working in Southern Finland, who held the whole family under fear.
The project touches on written and non-written histories while connecting these apparently unrelated narratives in a suggestive manner, with some other materials which question the ways we archive, narrate, use language, tell stories and history, and transfer affect and trauma.

The essay exists in a form of a poster publication of the same name, with a translation to Tunisian Arabic chat language "Arabizi" by Abdelkader Saâd.

The first edition of the publication has been a part of the publication events PAPERCUTS, Publics, Helsinki and SUPERBOOKS, Haus Der Kunst, Munich.

1st edition of 30, risoprint, 2 x A2, Munken Cream 70g, Covered in a museum quality semi-transparent envelope

Carthage, Tunis, 2020